How would you explain Helio to your friend in 3 sentences?
Helio connects the idle/excess computing power of data centers and clouds worldwide with the demand for large-scale computing workloads like 3D rendering, AI, and HPC.
We're doing this carbon-aware. This means we shift workloads to DCs with the best carbon footprint, price, and capacity to execute the workloads for our customers with the best price, scale, and the lowest emissions.
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🛠️ Tech stack & Development process at Helio
Technologies that we use
Can I choose the hardware? What is your coding setup (IDE, OS, Build server, Cloud provider)?
- You can choose the hardware (most employees have a MacBookPro).
- OS / IDE is also flexible.
- We use Gitlab as a Build server.
- We are multi-cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS).
Our software development process
How can I grow as a developer at your company (career paths and learning opportunities)?
Yes, as a startup, we have many possible career paths for developers like:
- Product Manager
- principle developer
- head of engineering
- team lead
- etc.
There are several learning opportunities, as we, as a company, learn more every day.
Do you prefer always writing your own software for everything or use frameworks if they fit?
We prefer using existing frameworks and writing our stuff on top.
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👩💻 Company culture
What are your key values and what are some daily work examples of them?
- Sustainable 🌍
- Fair 🤝
- Transparent 🔎
- Open 🔁
How diverse are your teams? What is the typical team size and structure?
Our teams are - unfortunately - not very diverse. 2 women and 9 men.
The teams have currently 2-5 members and no heads.
Employees are directly reporting to the C-level / founders.
Do you offer any helpful initiatives for parents with young children?
Working hours are very flexible.
Paid days off:
- Marriage: 3 days
- Birth 4 weeks
What is your remote work policy?
You can work full-time remotely, but we usually come to the office for 1-2 days a week for more creative work and interaction.
If you do Agile - how is your agile process & release cycle? How much coding vs meetings/planning?
- two-week sprints
- daily releases to prod
- not many meetings (1 planning at the beginning of the sprint)
Do you have some in-house tech workshops or hackathons? Is there an educational budget?
This is quite flexible. Currently, there is no need from the team for it, but if it changes, we're happy to do workshops/hackathons.
What we're doing on a more regular basis are team retreats and off-sites.
Educational budget: Available and will be decided case-by-case.
Can I work on my projects or open source for a part of time?
yes
📖 The Book Question™
What do I need to do to buy a 50$ educational book on company expense?
Ask for the credit card, buy it, and send the invoice to an email as PDF.
💼 How does the interview process at Helio look like?
- Initiate contact with Christoph, our CTO, via email at [email protected]. Share your GitHub and/or LinkedIn profiles – traditional CVs or cover letters are unnecessary.
- Helio will review your profile and provide feedback within one week.
- Engage in a remote or in-person meeting (30-60 minutes) with the founders, Christoph and Kevin.
- Gain insights into our company vision, culture, work environment, challenges, and role.
- Evaluate the alignment of your values and mindset with our dynamic startup culture.
- Connect with our team – virtually or in real life.
- Get acquainted with potential future colleagues.
- Assess your technical fit within our team.
- Embark on your journey with us with a flexible starting date.