Technical Lead (Manager), Historical APIs

About Helius

Helius is building the core infrastructure for Solana – empowering developers to create the next generation of crypto-powered applications. Our mission is to accelerate the development of internet capital markets by making it easier, faster, and more intuitive to build on-chain.

Thousands of teams – from early-stage startups to industry leaders like Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter – rely on Helius APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools to power their products. Backed by Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, we’re a small, senior team obsessed with performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.

Read our Helius Manifesto to see how we work and what we value.

About the Role

We’re looking for a manager who can lead this team from the front. Someone who can architect high-performance systems, dive deep into distributed infra, and coach exceptional engineers while still shipping code. This is a hands-on leadership role with outsized impact.

About the Team

The Archival team exposes APIs for querying Solana’s multi-petabyte ledger with sub-100ms. If you love the challenge of large datasets and low-latency performance engineering, this is the right team for you. The team moves fast, owns an enormous surface area, and operates like a small group of founders sitting in the critical path of the company.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the team responsible for building high-scale pipelines, storage solutions, and low-latency APIs

• Hold a high bar for system design, performance, and operational excellence

• Partner with founders, product, and staff engineers to invent new use cases and products

• Improve the engineering culture – speed, ownership, and high standards are the default here

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience engineering systems in large-scale, production environments

• 2+ years of engineering leadership experience

• Strong hands-on skills in Rust (or equivalent)

• Proven ability to optimize query performance and diagnose bottlenecks across storage and compute layers

• Experience using profilers and performance analysis tools to identify and resolve latency or throughput issues

• Track record of delivering complex systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and operations

• Strong people leadership skills paired with deep curiosity and a bias for ownership

• Ability to drive clarity and execution in ambiguous, high-pressure scenarios

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Solana, blockchain, or web3 infrastructure

• Experience with Postgres, ClickHouse, and/or RocksDB

Why Helius?

• High-impact work: Your code will power applications used by millions across the Solana ecosystem, including Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom

• Serious engineering: Build fast, reliable systems and user experiences across distributed infra, high-throughput backends, and modern frontend stacks

• Ownership & growth: Lead critical initiatives, influence architecture and product direction, and take on more responsibility as the company scales

• Remote-first flexibility: Work where you’re most effective with a flexible, fully distributed team

• Competitive comp & perks: Market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel

• Mission-driven team: Join ambitious builders who move fast, take ownership, and are shaping the future of decentralized apps