Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 August 19

🏈 North America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Helius Sunlink PV

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

⚡ Energy

🏭 Manufacturing

Energy • Manufacturing • Solar

Helius Sunlink PV is a company focused on developing high-quality photovoltaic modules for solar energy generation. With a manufacturing capacity of 6. 6 GW, Helius Sunlink PV employs industry-leading technology to deliver efficient and reliable solar products to various projects around the globe. They emphasize technical customer service and maintain rigorous quality control strategies in their production processes.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a core Helius system: Gatekeeper, Data Streaming, Historical APIs, or Account Index • Design, build, and release performance-sensitive products for the Solana developer ecosystem • Optimize production systems through profiling and benchmarking to improve latency and throughput • Collaborate with staff engineers and founders on architectural and product decisions • Improve observability, incident response, and operational excellence • Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar across the team • Set technical direction and make architectural decisions shaping the platform • Own the assigned domain end-to-end

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale • Strong systems-level intuition • Proficiency in Rust, C++, or Go • Experience debugging and optimizing latency-sensitive or high-throughput systems • Ability to own problems end-to-end with minimal direction • Prior exposure to engineering cultures prioritizing operational excellence, reliability, and customer impact • Deep Rust experience in a production, performance-critical environment (nice to have) • Experience with distributed systems, storage engines, or streaming infrastructure (nice to have) • Familiarity with flamegraphs, perf, or valgrind (nice to have) • Interest in Solana, blockchain infrastructure, or real-time financial systems (nice to have) • On-call experience and operational ownership of production services (nice to have) • Mix of large and small company experience (strongly preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity • Generous vacation • Wellness budgets • Support for learning and travel • Flexible, fully distributed team • Remote-first flexibility