Back End Engineer at Helio

Back End Engineer Helio 💼 Tech ⏰ Full Time 🌍 UK and Europe Only Please

791 days ago ✅ 39 applications

About the Job

About us and our mission

Helio is a web3 payments platform built from the ground up to transform the online payments market that is dominated by giants who charge creators & merchants astronomical fees, pay out slowly, and create friction by asking end-users for too much information including sign-ups and card entries

We want to fix these issues using modern blockchain technology, stablecoins and decentralised identity. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of web3 payments in the world economy. We do this by enabling merchants & creators to accept direct payment from consumers at zero fees for 1-time payments, enable pay streams with live cancellation & instant merchant payout by the sec/min while providing consumers with a friction-fee checkout experience that doesn’t require log-in or card details.

We’re an experienced team who built, scaled, and exited SaaS companies. Our ambition is to build Helio into a significant, lasting company that can fulfil our mission and grow to 1000’s of employees and millions of customers over time. We have exciting opportunities for exceptional talent to join the project at this early stage. We look for deep technical knowledge and exceptional motivation to make an impact and pursue new responsibilities. We hire both remote and in our London HQ.

You will:

You will help build and architect the foundation of the Helio software platform which all other systems will flow from and interact with. You will use all your previous experiences, skills and initiative to get things right from inception - which is to a naturally high standard of code, logic and engineering prowess in general. We want to build a platform that is led by engineering excellence paired with pragmatic approaches to solving problems and delivering financial grade quality throughout our products and services.

Technical knowledge is critical but we are a startup treading in uncharted territory so attitude is even more important. We’re looking for people that like uncertainty and want to figure out how to do things that haven’t been done before. You’re a true team player and inherently positive. Where others see problems, you see solutions.

You may be fit for this role if you have:

+3 years of software engineering experience in backend teams using primarily Python for rapid development and deployment. Fluency in Rust an advantage

Natural ability to write clean and elegant code, whilst being diligent and pragmatic in equal measure

Experience working with large scale systems serving 100,000s of customers. Fintech experience a plus

Experience utilising all the latest CI/CD, APIs, Security, Collaborative IDEs on public cloud platforms

Experience in Kubernetes, containers, deployment pipelines, A/B testing, Blue/Green principles to prove what you’ve built

A passion for automation and defining everything via CaC to drive platform consistency

Exceptional query skills and ability to build data models. SQL first and foremost.

Ability to troubleshoot and investigate complex issues across systems

Desire to build, maintain and improve anything you work on with a high level of ownership

Above all this, we are looking for engineers that want to do the best they can, learn, improve, grow, lead, help others and add value every single day for yourself, your teammates and for Helio

Benefits:

Significant equity stake by joining the project as one of the first engineers

Flexible work environment and autonomy over how you work

Unlimited holidays (we don’t have a policy but encourage everyone to take a healthy minimum)

UK and EU only please.

Please apply at https://careers.helio.co