Who We Are & What We Do
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.
Your Career Path & Development
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.
Your Impact in this Role
This team is responsible for the software platform and user experiences that supports our Participants, Providers, and Research Administrators throughout their genetics journey. We guide users from initial enrollment in our research program, through sample processing in our lab, to the return of their results and shape comprehension of their genetic outcomes. Our team works closely with Design, User Experience, Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Data Engineering, and Solutions teams to build and maintain the software and infrastructure necessary to provide an industry-leading experience.
As a Staff Software Engineer you will:
- Guide strategic technical planning across all teams in the Experience Org
- Design, architect, and implement software systems for our genomic applications and services, with a focus on the patient and provider experience.
- Collaborate and work cross functionally with product managers, designers, user experience researchers, scientists, and our business leaders to drive meaningful outcomes to the business.
- Lead frontend architecture and development strategy for the Experience Organization
- Help develop cross-training programs supporting backend engineers transitioning to full stack
- Shape how we utilize AI, establish AI development best practices, and drive adoption within the organization.
- Serve as a dedicated technical mentor for the Experience Department helping grow our next generation of technical leaders
- Own complex multi-faceted software systems and infrastructure from conception through development to production.
About you:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or 8+ years of equivalent professional experience as a Software Engineer.
- Proficiency with distributed systems built on cloud infrastructure — AWS, GCP, Azure or similar
- Full stack engineering expertise with strong frontend capabilities, proficient in Javascript/Typescript and an established back-end language (Go, Java, Python, Scala, Rust, etc)
- Familiarity and experience developing and maintaining SPA’s on frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue.js or similar.
- Expert at architecting large, complex, high-scale and durable software.
- Proven experience in solving complex architectural problems
- Possess a strong product engineering mindset
- Experience implementing and passion for driving AI adoption in engineering workflows
- Thought leader with a successful track record mentoring other engineers
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling/frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS CDK)
- Familiarity with database design, data manipulation, and data quality techniques
- Adaptable in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities may change quickly and frequently
- Demonstrated willingness to learn new domains (e.g. genomics, healthcare) and associated technologies
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Pluses:
- Familiarity with regulated software systems in any industry (e.g., HIPAA, ISO, FDA)
- Familiarity and experience developing and architecting event-driven architectures.
- Experience with AWS technologies and serverless infrastructure
- Experience with machine learning or AI technologies, including LLMs.
- Experience in the life sciences/pharmaceutical industry
What We Offer: A Commitment to Your Success
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.
- Monthly Salary Range : $117,000MXN - $170,000 MXN
- Bonus: 5%
- 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 MXN monthly.
- In-Office Perks: 80 MXNdaily for transport and 250 MXN daily for snacks on office days.
- Plus all bonuses and allowances as required under Mexican labor law
- 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 covers the cost of travel and accommodations.
Expected Interview Process:
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Manager Screen/Tech Screen 3) Virtual Onsite 4) Offer
What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:
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.
What To Expect During Your First 90 days:
First 30 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 30 - 60: 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 60 - 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.
Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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