Our story

Blockchain is transforming online payments with faster, cheaper transactions by removing intermediaries like banks, creating new opportunities for online businesses to grow communities and boost sales.

Helio was founded with a simple mission: "Make crypto payments accessible to everyone." Today, Helio is a leading Web3 payments platform, supporting over 6,000 merchants and millions of buyers with seamless crypto checkout solutions. Anyone can easily set up a merchant account and accept instant payments in USDC and other digital assets for ecommerce, subscriptions, digital goods and more.

As decentralised wealth grows and the crypto economy surges past +$30b, Helio helps merchants connect with digital natives through seamless crypto checkout solutions and provides custom onchain trading and payment infrastructure for apps including Solana Pay plugin for Shopify; Magic Eden pre-sales, and DEX Screener’s token launchpad called Moonshot, amongst others.

Who’s behind Helio?

We're an experienced team of builders backed by leading VCs, Lightspeed Faction & Peak Capital. The founding team previously built, scaled and exited two B2B SaaS companies for a total of $600m.

🚧 Make sure to connect your crypto wallet at https://hel.io/ to spin up a payment. We only interview people who have tried our product and have a strong desire to make it better! 🚧

You will:

You will help integrate and support, build and improve the Helio software platform by helping our developer community build solutions using our platform, integrations and plugins. You will use all your previous experiences, skills and initiative to get things right from inception - which is to a naturally high standards of solution engineering prowess. 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:

• 5+ years of solutions engineering experience in frontend and customer teams using full stack technologies like Node and Next.js, Javascript, Typescript and also embedded components like React, SDKs and other plugins built around PHP and Python

• Ideally you will have been a developer and moved into roles where you can directly help and deliver the customer.

• Great exposure to developer communities and the ability to help those developers get the Helio platform integrated across many solutions - be their advocate

• Opportunity to contribute to improving the Helio platform from a customer perspective

• Be involved in product testing and bug squashing

• Exceptional query skills and ability to build data models using SQL and NoSQL

• Ability to troubleshoot and investigate complex issues across systems - some site reliability experience would help

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

• You will wear many hats in this role and will provide an excellent opportunity to showcase your skills

• 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:

• Competitive salary

• Equity stake by joining the project at an early stage

• Flexible work environment and autonomy over how you work

Please note:

We are only hiring in the UTC timezone +2Hrs maximum at this time. If you apply and are not located in Western Europe then we will not proceed with your application.