If you’re part of Helius, we’ve deemed you to be exceptional. While that’s necessary to work here, it’s not sufficient. Changing reality is no easy task and requires hard work, creativity, and relentlessness. Here’s how we’ll get there.

The Mission

Helius’ mission is to increase the economic potential of the world’s developers. And we will do this with crypto.

Our Operating Principles

• Faster: this is the main principle behind everything we do. Speed is the default behind every decision and every act. Everything can be done faster: API calls, customer support, meetings, calls, sales cycles, and even how you type. Yes, I am serious about your typing speed. Do not leave anything for tomorrow that you can do in this second.
• Divine Discontent: nothing is more demoralizing for A players than mediocrity. Do not let your colleagues or yourself ever ship something they’re not excited about. If it’s not a 10/10, try again. If you think “good enough” is good enough or if you don’t enjoy the intrinsic process of aiming for excellence, my direct ask is that you work somewhere else.
• Clear Communication: a company is a set of people on a mission to improve reality. This is hard, no one person can do it. We must multiply our collective potential into a single unit. This requires brilliant coordination, and hence clear communication. Maximize context per sentence, add TL;DRs, don’t use fluff words (Replace ”I guess we could” with “I will finish this by X pm on Monday”), remove unnecessary words. Default to being direct over superficial politeness. No typos.
• Action: do not psyops yourself. We are not bureaucrats, we are builders. We don’t get feedback from decades of academic reviews, we get feedback from our customers. Ship something, get it out, get feedback. Take action. Replace all “I can/could/should” with “I will”.
• Win: people love to deny this, but life is competition. No one likes losing. Do you? You either admit this and aim to win every time or make excuses for temporary comfort. Not to be confused with 0-sum thinking, always aim for win-win situations. We won’t always win, but we will always put up a fight. If we lose, we learn.
• Optimism: if you don’t believe that the future can look better than the past, you should not be here. No cynic ever changed the world.

Our Expectations

These are the traits that we evaluate ourselves and our peers on every day and every quarter.

• Ownership: are you a passenger or are you a driver? Did it matter you showed up today? Are you proactive? If not, you are not an owner. Do not wait for things to come to you, take ownership and make them happen. We don’t care about your name or title, we care about effort and results.
• Execution: anyone can come up with ideas. We are not bureaucrats, we are builders. “Good enough” is the root of all evil, this is not a dollar store. Before asking your peers for feedback, first ask yourself: “am I excited about what I built? Is this a 10/10?” — if your answer is full of excuses, try again.
• Communication: poor communication in an organization is akin to a blood clot in the human body. If the body can’t communicate, it falls sick to disease and dies. If the company can’t communicate, it falls sick to dysfunction and dies. If you don’t value communication, then you don’t value the mission. Listen more than you talk. Be clear, succinct, and direct. If your English needs work, work on it.

What’s Unique About Being at Helius

What can you do at Helius that you can’t do anywhere else?

• Develop the frontier of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in adversarial environments with high stakes