Helion Energy

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Helion Energy$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building full-stack applications
  • Hands-on experience with modern web stacks (e.g., React, Next.js)
  • Expertise in HTML, CSS, TypeScript and a backend language like Go or Python
  • Cloud-native experience in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with DevOps best practices and CI/CD tools
  • Familiarity with UX design tools like Figma

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop frontends, APIs, workflows, database schemas, and caching layers
  • Serve as part-time product manager and UX designer to enhance user interaction
  • Monitor and optimize system performance and reliability using observability tools
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend strategic solutions
  • Participate in on-call rotations to maintain service-level agreements
  • Integrate applications with internal and external data systems

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
  • 31 days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
  • 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
  • Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
  • Short and long-term disability, and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
  • Annual wellness stipend
Full Job Description
What you will be doing

You will design, develop, and operate secure, reliable, scalable, and delightfully usable full-stack applications to optimize processes between mechanical and electrical engineering, supply chain, inventory, manufacturing, and finance, integrating with our internal data platform and external systems. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role: together with a cross-functional team owning business critical applications, you will multiply the impact of many other teams across the company.

You will:
  • Design and develop frontends, APIs, workflows, database schemas, and caching layers
  • Be a part-time product manager and UX designer. You need to understand how people and processes interact with the software you build
  • Monitor and continuously improve the performance and reliability of our systems, using best-in-class observability tools
  • Collaborate with other software engineers, data analysts and scientists, other engineering disciplines, non-engineers, leadership, and vendors to understand feature and data requirements and deliver solutions
  • Stay current with emerging technologies while recommending battle-tested right-fit solutions that align with strategic goals
  • Participate in on-call rotations to maintain our SLA with the rest of the company, and prevent issues from stalling 24/7 production schedules

Required Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building full-stack applications
  • Hands-on experience with modern web stacks (e.g., React, Next.js)
  • Expertise in HTML, CSS, TypeScript and a backend language like Go or Python
  • Cloud-native experience in Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud, using container orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
  • Familiar with DevOps best practices, using version control (Git), CI/CD (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions), and monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
  • Familiar with UX design tools like Figma

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Benefits

Our total compensation package includes benefits, including but not limited to:
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
  • 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
  • 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
  • Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
  • Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
  • Annual wellness stipend

About Helion Energy

Helion Energy, Inc. is an American fusion research company, located in Everett, Washington. They are developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce helium-3 and fusion power via aneutronic fusion.
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