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Helius is building core infrastructure for Solana, enabling developers to create crypto-powered applications. The company provides APIs, webhooks, and indexing tools used by thousands of teams including Coinbase, Phantom, and Jupiter. Backed by top-tier VCs (Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital), Helius is a lean, senior team focused on performance, simplicity, and scalability in decentralized systems.
You will own full-cycle recruiting for engineering roles, primarily Rust and backend engineers for streaming, database, and edge gateway teams, as well as platform and bare-metal infrastructure engineers. You'll report to the VP of People and partner directly with Engineering leadership. As a lean company, you'll also support other functions as needed.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own a portfolio of senior and staff-level engineering searches end-to-end, from intake through offer.
- Partner with Engineering leadership to define success profiles, calibrate on level, and push back when necessary.
- Build outbound pipelines into infrastructure, cloud, devtools, and data companies, sourcing from both large-scale and fast-moving startups.
- Identify high-trajectory engineers beyond impressive titles.
- Translate Helius's technical challenges for engineers unfamiliar with crypto.
- Run a structured, high-signal interview process in Ashby that moves quickly without lowering standards.
- Manage the closing process end-to-end, including bringing in founders and investors to compete against larger companies.
- Activate the referral program by mining team networks.
- Own agency relationships and determine sourcing strategy.
- Track pipeline health and conversion metrics to identify and fix bottlenecks.
- Build talent brand through outreach, content, and occasional conference attendance.
In your first 90 days, you'll take over the highest-priority search (database and performance engineer), learn the engineering org deeply, build an outbound pipeline independent of agencies, and audit the interview process and funnel data.
Helius offers remote-first flexibility, market-leading salary, meaningful equity, generous vacation, wellness budgets, and support for learning and travel.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years recruiting engineers with a track record of closing senior and staff-level backend, infrastructure, or systems roles.
- Strong sourcing instincts and your own playbook for finding off-market talent.
- Technical fluency in distributed systems, databases, and performance (no coding required).
- Startup or high-growth experience moving fast and executing well.
- Confidence to push back on hiring managers and drive alignment.
- Clear, direct communication and strong follow-through.
- Bias for action and ownership of outcomes.
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience recruiting at infrastructure, devtools, cloud, or trading-technology companies.
- Network in the Rust or systems engineering community.
- Experience with Ashby and AI-assisted sourcing tools.
