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title: 'Technical Recruiter at Helius'
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# Technical Recruiter at Helius

- **Company:** Helius
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helius/b444d95c-7142-4981-b4dd-b26fc2954309

## Job description

## 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](https://helius-api.notion.site/The-Helius-Manifesto-1510b5a55cc5802eb3f8e41f539ed810) to see how we work and what we value.

## About the Role

We’re hiring for roles where the best candidates aren’t looking, and many have never considered crypto. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting for our hardest engineering searches. That means Rust and backend engineers for our streaming, database, and edge gateway teams, platform and bare-metal infrastructure engineers, and technical roles that face developers. You’ll report to the VP of People and partner directly with Helius’s Engineering leadership.

Most of your work will be engineering hiring. As a lean company, you’ll also flex to support other functions when the business needs it.

## What You'll Do

- Own a portfolio of senior and staff-level searches end to end, from intake through signed offer.
- Partner directly with Engineering leadership to define success profiles and calibrate on level, and push back when a req or a profile isn’t right.
- Build outbound pipelines into infrastructure, cloud, devtools, and data companies. Source from both large-scale infrastructure companies and fast-moving startups, because our best hires often have both on their résumé.
- Spot high-trajectory engineers, not just impressive titles. We’ll hire someone with 3 years of steep growth over someone with 10 flat years.
- Sell the engineering problem, not the token. Translate Helius’s systems challenges for engineers who would never open a crypto recruiter’s message.
- Run a structured, high-signal interview process in Ashby that moves fast without lowering the bar.
- Run the closing process end to end, including bringing in founders and investors at the right moments, to win candidates with competing offers from larger, well-funded companies.
- Turn our referral program into a consistent source of hire by mining the team’s networks, not just waiting for submissions.
- Own our agency relationships and decide where in-house sourcing beats them.
- Track pipeline health and conversion by stage, and use the data to fix bottlenecks.
- Help build our talent brand with engineers through outreach, content, and representing Helius at engineering events and conferences (occasional travel).

## Your First 90 Days

- Take over our highest-priority search: a database and performance engineer for one of our core data teams.
- Learn our engineering org well enough to pitch every open role in your own words.
- Build an outbound pipeline that doesn’t depend on agencies or inbound.
- Audit our interview process and funnel data, and bring back what you’d change.

## What You'll Bring

- 5+ years recruiting engineers, with a track record of closing senior and staff-level backend, infrastructure, or systems roles.
- Strong sourcing instincts. You enjoy the hunt and have your own playbook for finding people who aren’t on the market.
- Technical fluency. You don’t need to code, but you can talk distributed systems, databases, and performance with engineers without losing them.
- Startup or high-growth experience where you were expected to move fast and get it right.
- The confidence to push back on hiring managers and drive alignment.
- Clear, direct communication and real follow-through.
- A bias for action and ownership of outcomes, not just activity.

## Nice to Have

- Experience recruiting at an infrastructure, devtools, cloud, or trading-technology company.
- A network in the Rust or systems engineering community.
- Experience with Ashby and AI-assisted sourcing tools.

Why Helius?

- High-impact work: You’ll work side by side with Engineering leadership, and your hires will directly shape the teams building critical infrastructure. At our size, every hire changes the company.
- Real ownership: You’ll help define how Helius hires engineers, including success profiles, sourcing strategy, and process, not just work through a req list.
- 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: You’ll work alongside people who move fast, take ownership, and care about doing things well.

## About Helius

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Helius is an enterprise-grade development platform providing the fastest RPCs, APIs, trading infrastructure, and data streaming tools for the Solana blockchain.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Claymont, Delaware, United States (remote-first)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mert M. (CEO), Nicolas Pennie (COO), Liam Vovk (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / software development
- **Target customers**: B2B – crypto exchanges, wallet providers, DeFi protocols, market makers, searchers, fintechs, and any team building on Solana
- **Mission statement**: “Increase the economic potential of the world’s developers” by accelerating internet capital markets on Solana

## Products & Services
- **Solana RPCs** – Globally distributed, sub‑millisecond RPC nodes with a Rust‑based edge gateway (Gatekeeper) and exclusive archival methods (e.g., cursor‑based pagination).
- **Sender** – Ultra‑low latency transaction sending service (7 global endpoints, 50 TPS default, staked bandwidth) for reliable trade landing.
- **LaserStream** – High‑performance gRPC streaming for Solana blocks, transactions, and account data with redundant node clusters, historical replay, and optimized ShredStream.
- **Webhooks & APIs** – Real‑time notifications and unified API for building crypto apps.
- **Validator‑as‑a‑Service** – Operates Solana’s #1 validator to support clients with staked connections.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total Funding: USD 34.35 M (Seed 2022 → Series A 2024 → Series B 2024 → Venture 2025)
  - Annual Revenue: Conflicting reports – LinkedIn estimates USD 1 M, CB Insights estimates USD 12.6 M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund, Haun Ventures, Chapter One, Reciprocal Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Foundation Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, Balaji Srinivasan
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 34 employees (+40.5% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 7 (Yearly change +133%)
  - Customers include Coinbase, Bitwise, Phantom, and pump.fun
  - SOC 2 certified, 99.99% RPC success rate, 5x faster transaction confirmations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: Helius is Solana’s #1 validator, giving it unique staked bandwidth and topological advantages.
- **Performance**: Sub‑millisecond reads (Gatekeeper), 7 global endpoints for transaction sending, redundant node clusters for data streaming.
- **Trust & Compliance**: SOC 2 certified infrastructure, 24/7 support, and enterprise‑grade reliability.
- **Developer‑first**: Free tier available, cursor‑based archival methods, and purpose‑built tools for traders, searchers, and fintechs.

## Strategic Focus
Helius is focused on scaling “internet capital markets” on Solana by continuously lowering latency, adding regional coverage (FRA, AMS, TYO, SG, LAX, LON, EWR, PITT, SLC), and expanding products for high‑frequency trading, DeFi, and wallet infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote** – Work from anywhere; founder‑backed flexibility (“crypto is not a 9‑to‑5”).
- **Partner offices** in 7 global cities (SF, LA, Chicago, NYC, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo).
- **Wellness, event, and learning budgets** to fuel peak performance and community engagement.
- **High‑stakes engineering** – Build low‑latency distributed systems in adversarial, high‑throughput environments.
- **Culture**: “Faster, Divine Discontent, Clear Communication, Assertive Action, Win, Optimism” – direct, execution‑oriented, and optimistic.
- **Diverse team** – 34 employees across 14 countries (US, Canada, India, Germany, South Africa, etc.).

## Sources
1. [Helius Official Website](https://www.helius.dev/)
2. [Helius Careers Page](https://www.helius.dev/careers)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/heliusapi)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/helius-1)
5. [Ashby Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/helius)

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