{"id":1430747,"url":"https://alion.io/job/helix-staff-software-engineer-experience","title":"Staff Software Engineer - Experience","company":{"id":1864201,"name":"Helix","domain":"helix.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/helix-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Gem","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":173000,"max":234500,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":234500},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Next.js","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"Scala","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vue.js","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-15T15:58:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T06:32:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Who We Are & What We Do\nAt Helix, our mission is simple: to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA.\nReady 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.\nWhat is special about this role?\nThe Helix Experience Team builds the software platform and user experiences that guide patients and providers through their entire genetics journey, from enrollment through results delivery. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for this platform and shape engineering standards across the organization.\nAs a Staff Software Engineer - Experience, you will:\nGuide and define the strategic technical direction for the Experience platform and wider Engineering organization.\nShape how Helix Engineering utilizes AI and advance our AI development best practices.\nDirect AI agents to automate entire engineering workflows, including codifying our prompt libraries and context frameworks.\nDesign, architect, and implement software systems for our genomic applications and services, with a focus on the patient and provider experience.\nDrive complex, ambiguous projects from scoping to production with autonomy, owning the design, architecture and implementation strategy. \nCollaborate and lead cross-functional work with product managers, designers, user experience researchers, scientists, and our business leaders to drive meaningful outcomes to the business.\nShape the engineering standards, delivery practices, and quality bars within all of Engineering.\nServe as a dedicated technical mentor, helping grow our next generation of technical leaders.\nChampion durable solutions that eliminate entire categories of technical debt and raise reliability.\nAbout you:\n10+ years of equivalent professional experience as a Software Engineer, with a track record of impact at scale.\nA strong product engineering mindset, with technical decisions anchored in customer and business outcomes.\nOperates with a high degree of autonomy, identifies problems before they're escalated and drives them to resolution proactively.\nExperience implementing and a passion for driving AI adoption in engineering workflows, with a proven ability to build automated safeguards and evaluations that validate AI-generated code at scale.\nProficiency with distributed systems built on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nDeep full-stack expertise, proficient in a backend language such as Go, Java, Python, Scala, or Rust.\nFamiliarity and experience developing and maintaining SPA’s on frameworks such as React, Next.js, Vue.js or similar using TypeScript/JavaScript.\nA track record of raising the technical standards and practices of engineers beyond your immediate team or department.\nAdaptable in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities may change quickly and frequently.\nPluses:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.\nFamiliarity with regulated software systems in any industry, such as HIPAA, ISO, or FDA.\nExperience designing and architecting event-driven architectures.\nExperience with AWS serverless infrastructure.\nExperience in the life sciences, healthcare, or genomics domain.\nExpected Interview Process:\n1) Initial Screen 2) Technical Interviews 3) Leadership Interviews 4) Offer\nExpected Pay For This Role:\nThere are 3 distinct parts to your Helix offer: 1) Base Salary 2) Annual Bonus 3) Equity\nExpected Helix Base: US: $173,000 - $234,500 USD\nCA: $173,000 - $218,000 CAD\n\nExpected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 15% of your annual salary\nEquity: We offer generous equity at Helix. If you receive a Helix offer your recruiter will book dedicated time with you to educate you on our equity model.\nAside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits:\nComprehensive Health Insurance with Date of Hire eligibility Above average employer paid premium coverage \n\n12 weeks Helix Paid Parental Leave option \n401(k) with employer matching of up to 3% and 100% Vesting on the Date of Hire\nComprehensive Well-Being Benefits \nFlexible PTO\nRemote options for many roles and a home office stipend \nWhat To Expect During Your First 90 days:\nFirst 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. \nDay 5 - 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. \nDay 30 - 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. \nTo learn how Helix collects, uses, and protects your personal information during the recruitment process, please review our Privacy Notice.\nHelix 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. \n #LI-Remote\nCompensation\nThe base pay range for this role is $173,000 - $234,500 per year.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5981,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Health insurance","Home office","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Genomics & Genetic Testing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T01:20:56Z"}],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.666,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:4","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":234500,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/helix-staff-software-engineer-experience","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/helix-staff-software-engineer-experience.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T02:39:12Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1864,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3136,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}