4 months ago
Berlin, Germany or Munich, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Review colleagues’ code contributions, proposals, and RFCs.
- Propose and implement features, capabilities, algorithms, infrastructure, and complete products across the stack.
- Mentor colleagues, participate in interviewing, and contribute to the engineering pipeline.
- Share technical knowledge through tech talks, learning groups, and office hours.
- Maintain existing software, identify issues with customers, improve operational reliability and performance, and reduce technical debt.
- Develop and improve micro- and macro-level tests and benchmarks.
- Present work in weekly demo sessions.
Requirements
- Ability to write legible, maintainable, and performant code.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Enjoys collaboration, code review, and pair programming.
- Comfort working asynchronously through pull requests, RFCs, and email discussions.
- Backend development experience, ideally with Rust, Java, Go, or C++.
- Familiarity with REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Arrow.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, mentoring, and ethical engineering considerations.
- Rust and Python experience are preferred.
- Experience with container-based and cloud-native architectures, metrics tooling, SQL and streaming databases, routing protocols, cryptographic protocols, hardware interfaces, robotics, or production ML systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and VSOP options
- Relocation support
- Social and education allowances
- Regular company events and all-hands across Europe
- Hands-on onboarding program with company-wide tooling and applications
- Outcome-focused work without time-tracking
About Helsing
Helsing was founded to provide Artificial Intelligence to protect our democracies. Helsing works with partners in governments and across industry. Together, we develop systems that leverage AI and autonomy to provide autonomous mass that is sovereign, scalable and affordable. We’re looking for people with their heart in the right place, who share our conviction that liberal democratic values are worth protecting, for ourselves and for future generations.