Senior Data Engineer

Job description

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.
  
  

What is special about this role?

As a Senior Software Engineer II, Data at Helix, you will provide your data and analytics engineering expertise to Analysts and Engineers across Helix.

You'll build data products, platforms for interacting with data, and set patterns that leverage industry best practices.

Your influence will span across the organization as you collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions that drive strategic decision-making.

Your Impact in this role:

• Lead the design of reusable data models that drive critical business operations, following industry best practices
• Recognize patterns that don't serve long-term goals and implement effective solutions
• Drive optimization of data pipelines and data models to enhance performance, reliability, and usability
• Establish and champion high standards for testing, documentation, and data quality
• Mentor engineers and analysts on data best practices

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in data, software, or analytics engineering roles
• 4+ years writing advanced SQL and extensive dbt experience
• 2+ years building on existing models, helping them scale as new business requirements are introduced
• Expertise in dimensional modeling and other advanced data modeling methodologies
• Expertise in optimizing performance in cloud data platforms such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake
• Experience designing data architectures that span multiple business domains
• Experience working with data catalogs and/or metadata platforms that support data discovery, classification, etc.
  
  
• Proficiency with Python, Golang, or TypeScript for developing robust data tools and services
• Experience working with BI tools like Tableau, ThoughtSpot, or similar
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate between technical and business contexts

Pluses:

• Experience working in a regulated environment (healthcare, financial data, etc.)
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and microservices architectures
• Experience designing and building microservices
• Advanced knowledge of orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, etc.) and optimization techniques
• Experience implementing data governance controls (access management, privacy compliance, etc.)
• Track record of improving development workflows and CI/CD processes for data and analytics teams
• Experience with data architectures that support domain-oriented data ownership

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 : $95,000MXN - $134,000 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 : 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 : 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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