Senior Frontend Engineer at Helix

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.
What is special about this role?
You will be the primary technical owner of our website, bridging the gap between engineering and marketing. This is a high-impact role where you won’t just be coding; you will be orchestrating the digital face of the company. You will have the unique opportunity to implement cutting-edge features including deploying new AI capabilities directly onto our user-facing platforms. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will collaborate closely with digital marketing, product, and design teams to build performant, secure, and scalable web experiences that drive our business forward.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will:

• Take ownership of the front-end and back-end of the company website and its sub-domains, specifically utilizing Sanity CMS. Your goal will be to significantly improve load times and ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability.
• Partner with marketing, product, and design teams to implement new responsive features, landing pages, and user interfaces. You will translate designs into user-friendly, responsive reality across all devices.
• Maintain critical integrations with a variety of marketing platforms such as Demio, ZoomInfo, and HubSpot. You will also manage the backend logic and infrastructure required to support these frontend efforts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and develop new web features through the use of AI-enabled tools, and refine those concepts for fast deployment across the website to meet changing customer needs.
• Troubleshoot bugs, maintain quality control, and implement web tracking features (Google Tag Manager, Analytics) to monitor traffic and engagement.

About you:

• 3-5 years of expert-level proficiency in Next.js, React, and TypeScript (specifically strict mode patterns).
• Deep experience with Tailwind CSS and implementing complex, responsive designs.
• Proven experience with Sanity.io (or similar headless CMS) and Algolia (or similar search-as-a-service platforms).
• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, with the ability to manage modern web hosting, serverless functions, and backend resources.
• AI-Forward Mindset: Demonstrated experience or strong enthusiasm for using AI development tools to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Familiarity with modern build tooling and linters like Biome, pnpm, and Github Actions.
• You have 2-3 years of experience working in UX and a proven ability to implement UX designs from tools like Miro and Figma into functional, responsive code.
• A collaborative team player with strong communication skills, experienced in working with cross-functional teams.

Pluses:

• Experience executing site migrations between major cloud hosting providers (e.g., Vercel to AWS).
• Experience integrating AI/LLM features directly into user-facing products.
• Background in healthcare, genomics, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with Rust-based web tools.

Expected Interview Process:1) Recruiter Screen 2) Manager Screen/Tech Screen 3) Onsite 4) Offer
Expected Pay For This Role:There are 2 distinct parts to your Helix offer: 1) Base Salary 2) Annual Bonus

• Expected Helix Base: $1,216,00 - $1,573,750
• Expected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 5% of your annual salary

Aside from working alongside brilliant, dedicated, passionate, down-to-earth, curious, warm, and thoughtful people, we also provide great benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance with Date of Hire eligibility
• 12 weeks Helix Paid Parental Leave option
• Flexible PTO
• Remote options for many roles and a home office stipend

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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CompensationThe base pay range for this role is MX$1,216,000 – MX$1,573,750 per year.