The Role
Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable full-stack, cloud-native software and infrastructure for clinicogenomic data products. Responsibilities include distributed systems, Kubernetes, serverless services, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, technical direction, engineering standards, AI-assisted development, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring.
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At Helix, our mission is simple: to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA. Ready to make a real-world impact with your skills? At Helix, we're transforming healthcare by making genomics a standard of care. We partner with health systems and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical practice. Join us in building a future where healthcare is personalized, proactive, and powered by genomics.
We are committed to your long-term growth. We invest in you through:
- Cutting-Edge AI Tooling: We equip our engineers to innovate at speed. You'll have full access to GitHub Copilot, frontier models (like Claude and OpenAI), Gemini, and other new tools as they emerge, all supported by our dedicated internal AI team.
- Continuous Learning: Sharpen your skills with full access to the entire Udemy learning database.
- Internal Mentorship: Learn from experts across our global team through tech demos, pair programming, and collaborative projects.
- Clear Advancement: We provide a framework for you to grow from one role to the next, with clear expectations and support from your manager.
- Travel: Opportunities to travel to the US for collaboration with our global teams.
What is special about this role?
As a member of our Data Experiences team, you'll be at the forefront of building access to one of the world's most comprehensive clinicogenomic datasets. Partnering with product, engineering, analytics, AI, and commercial teams, you'll build the full-stack products that enable novel research discoveries, surface health system insights, and accelerate therapeutic development.
As a Senior Software Engineer II, you will:
- Design, architect, and implement software systems that leverage best practices and are designed for scale.
- Develop and own cloud-native applications that span multiple domains across frontend, backend, and testing.
- Deploy and operate software with reliability at scale for our users.
- Build and operate the cloud infrastructure and platforms our products run on.
- Own technical direction for projects and contribute to broader engineering decisions.
- Collaborate with product managers, bioinformaticians, scientists, and other engineers.
- Own deliverables from idea to feature completion and production.
- Improve and adopt exceptional engineering practices for the organization, building the systematic approaches, like testing and platform standards, that the team works within.
- Use AI in day to day development, direct coding agents, and help drive AI adoption in engineering workflows.
- Mentor other engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning and education.
About you:
- 6+ years development experience in Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or similar.
- Proficiency with distributed systems built on cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- You've worked as an infrastructure engineer or have built complex cloud infrastructure projects from the ground up.
- Strong production Kubernetes experience, including multi-tenant workloads.
- Experience developing and owning serverless services, such as AWS API Gateway, Lambda, and container-based microservices.
- Experience architecting large, high-scale durable backend or frontend systems.
- Experience designing and operating event-driven distributed systems at scale.
- You believe in owning your cloud infrastructure and have experience driving changes through CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi.
- Thought leadership and a successful track record mentoring other engineers.
- Affinity for an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery.
- Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
Pluses:
- Familiarity working with regulated software systems, such as HIPAA, ISO, or FDA.
- Experience supporting researchers, scientists, or other technical end users.
- Familiarity working in an agile environment.
We take care of our team with benefits that provide flexibility and support for your growth - what we call prestaciones superiores a las de la ley.
- Competitive Compensation: A strong base salary plus an annual performance bonus.
- Expected Helix Base: $$114,750-$149,625 MXN/monthly
- Expected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 10% of your annual salary
- Comprehensive Health: 100% employer-paid premium for our Bronze Family Health Insurance plan, with eligibility from your first day.
- Allowances & Stipends:
- Home Office Stipend: we will reimburse up to $500 USD for essential workspace items, so you are fully equipped to perform your best.
- Phone Allowance: 700 MXP monthly.
- In-Office Perks: 80 MXP daily for transport and 250 MXP daily for snacks on office days.
- Generous Time Off: Flexible vacation policy plus all national holidays.
- Hybrid & Remote Flexibility:
- Hybrid: Our office is located at WeWork - Varsovia, Mexico City. We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skillshare sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities. Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX.
- Remote (for team members living 80 km or more outside Mexico City): We'll invite you to our CDMX office 3-6 times a year for key training and team meetings. These visits are a great chance to connect in person and strengthen our Helix community. Helix cover travel and accommodation.
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Hiring Manager 3)Technical Interview 4) Virtual Onsite
We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.
First 5 days: You’ll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.
Day 6 - 30: You’ll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix’s products, services and capabilities.
Day 31 - 90: You’ll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of software development experience in Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or similar
- Proficiency with distributed systems built on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar cloud infrastructure
- Experience as an infrastructure engineer or building complex cloud infrastructure from the ground up
- Strong production Kubernetes experience, including multi-tenant workloads
- Experience developing and owning serverless services, including API Gateway, Lambda, and container-based microservices
- Experience architecting large-scale durable backend or frontend systems
- Experience designing and operating event-driven distributed systems at scale
- Experience driving cloud infrastructure changes through CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi
- Thought leadership and a successful track record mentoring engineers
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery practices
- Fluent written and verbal English
- Familiarity with regulated software systems, such as HIPAA, ISO, or FDA
- Experience supporting researchers, scientists, or other technical end users
- Familiarity with agile environments
Helix Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests generous PTO, flexible time away, unlimited vacation, paid sick days, and paid parental leave support work–life balance. These policies are frequently highlighted alongside flexible scheduling.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision coverage are complemented by a wellness program. Access to health-focused initiatives contributes to a comprehensive core benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests commuter benefits, free daily meals, and onsite parking enhance day‑to‑day experience. Such perks, combined with flexible work arrangements, add lifestyle value beyond base pay.
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The Company
What We Do
Helix is a rapidly growing startup focused on personal genomics. Helix has a simple but powerful mission: to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We’re creating an ecosystem where people can explore diverse and uniquely personalized applications provided by high-quality partners.
Why Work With Us
We are collaborators—scientists, engineers, designers, marketers, and more—working across four offices to solve complex challenges locked within the human genome. We are biased toward action as we strive to uphold integrity in sequencing, science, and communication. At Helix, transparency, collaboration, and empowerment drive us in all that we do.
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