Senior Data Engineer
Helix
Data Science
Mexico City, Mexico · Mexico · Remote
MXN 1,284k-1,744,500 / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 28, 2025
Senior Data Engineer
Mexico City, Mexico • Mexico - Remote
Engineering
Remote • Hybrid
Full-time
You + Helix
Helix is a place where innovators and doers gather in order to drive significant progress in population genomics. We have come together to work at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics.
If you’re excited by the idea of making a meaningful impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves on driving innovation through fostering an environment with an emphasis on empowering one another to grow, Helix might be the place for you!
Helix + The World
Helix is the leading population genomics company. Helix enables health systems, public health organizations and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into patient care and public health decision making.
We are continuing to scale our world-class team to support our dedication to empowering every person to improve their life through DNA.
Helix + Transparency
At Helix, we value transparency. You will find the expected compensation, interview process, what to anticipate during onboarding, and your first 90 days listed in the job description for all Helix roles.
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.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:
- 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
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For more information or to make an accommodation request reach out to HR@helix.com.
Expected Interview Process:
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Hiring Manager 3)Technical Interview 4) Virtual Onsite
Expected Pay For This Role:
There are 2 distinct parts to your Helix offer: 1) Base Salary 2) Annual Bonus
Expected Helix Annual Base: $1,284,000 - $1,744,500 MXN
Expected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 5% of your annual salary
The salary range above is our reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role across your region. Actual starting pay will be based on non-discriminatory job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about your specific work location salary range during the hiring process.
Aside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits through our employer of record.
Mexico City Employees:
Our office is located at WeWork - Varsovia 36 Colonia Juárez Ciudad de México, CDMX 06600
We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skill share sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities. For Mexican employees who reside outside of CDMX you will not be required to visit once per week.
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 30 - 60: 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 60 - 90: 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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