Staff Software Engineer - Experience

About the role

At Helix, our mission is to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA. We partner with health systems and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical practice. The 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 – Experience, you will set the technical direction for this platform and shape engineering standards across the organization. In your first 90 days, you will complete onboarding, contribute to projects, develop OKRs with your manager, and begin to demonstrate impact on the Helix mission.

Responsibilities

• Guide and define the strategic technical direction for the Experience platform and wider Engineering organization.
• Shape how Helix Engineering utilizes AI and advance our AI development best practices.
• Direct AI agents to automate entire engineering workflows, including codifying our prompt libraries and context frameworks.
• Design, architect, and implement software systems for our genomic applications and services, with a focus on the patient and provider experience.
• Drive complex, ambiguous projects from scoping to production with autonomy, owning the design, architecture and implementation strategy.
• Collaborate and lead cross-functional work with product managers, designers, user experience researchers, scientists, and our business leaders to drive meaningful outcomes to the business.
• Shape the engineering standards, delivery practices, and quality bars within all of Engineering.
• Serve as a dedicated technical mentor, helping grow our next generation of technical leaders.
• Champion durable solutions that eliminate entire categories of technical debt and raise reliability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of equivalent professional experience as a Software Engineer, with a track record of impact at scale.
• Strong product engineering mindset, with technical decisions anchored in customer and business outcomes.
• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, identifies problems before they're escalated and drives them to resolution proactively.
• Experience implementing and a passion for driving AI adoption in engineering workflows, with a proven ability to build automated