Solutions Engineer at Helio

With the adoption of blockchains and rise of decentralized wealth, merchants & creators will increasingly turn to onchain payments to tap into fast growing audience of crypto savvy users that love spending with their crypto wallets.That’s where Helio comes in to play and we’ve made it easy for the first time for anyone to accept crypto payments. We power payments for +5,000 creators & merchants and 100s of thousands of unique active wallets. Set up in minutes & get paid instantly for E-commerce, NFT pre-sales, ticketing, subscriptions & digital products.

A few things merchants & creators can achieve with Helio

• Accept USDC, SOL, ETH, BTC & 100s of digital assets seamlessly as a method of payment and benefit from instant payouts & low fees
• Integrate the Helio Checkout Widget in your website with ease, or add our e-commerce plugin for WooCommerce or the Solana Pay plug-in for Shopify
• Launch a Pay Link in a few clicks for NFT pre-sales, gated payments, subscriptions, Discord memberships, video paywalling and more
• Use Helio Wallet to receive payments and offramp digital currencies to fiat / your bank account
• Integrate the Helio API for real-time USDC and other digital currency deposits in your app
• Enable traditional card payments for your customers, no wallet or crypto required, and always receive crypto

🧠 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

Our story

With the adoption of blockchains and rise of decentralised wealth, merchants & creators will increasingly turn to onchain payments to tap into fast growing audience of crypto savvy users that love spending with their crypto wallets.That’s where Helio comes in to play and we’ve made it easy for the first time for anyone to accept crypto payments. We power payments for +5,000 creators & merchants and 100s of thousands of unique active wallets. Set up in minutes & get paid instantly for E-commerce, NFT pre-sales, ticketing, subscriptions & digital products.

A few things merchants & creators can achieve with Helio

• Accept USDC, SOL, ETH, BTC & 100s of digital assets seamlessly as a method of payment and benefit from instant payouts & low fees

• Integrate the Helio Checkout Widget in your website with ease, or add our e-commerce plugin for WooCommerce or the Solana Pay plug-in for Shopify

• Launch a Pay Link in a few clicks for NFT pre-sales, gated payments, subscriptions, Discord memberships, video paywalling and more

• Use Helio Wallet to receive payments and offramp digital currencies to fiat / your bank account

• Integrate the Helio API for real-time USDC and other digital currency deposits in your app

• Enable traditional card payments for your customers, no wallet or crypto required, and always receive crypto

🧠 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 set up your first 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.