Senior Software Engineer, Data Experiences

Location: Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico - Remote

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Who We Are & What We Do 

Your Career Path & Development

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

What We Offer: A Commitment to Your Success

• 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.

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