Senior Backend Engineer

Location

New York

Full time

Engineering

• Base: $500K – $1.5M • $75K – $500K Equity
  • Offers Bonus

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind pump.fun, the largest memecoin launchpad in production today.

~$1B daily volume. Low latency, high throughput, constant load.

• Own the most critical and complex backend systems, directly writing and shipping production code across core services

• Lead the design and implementation of high-scale distributed systems that power real-time, high-throughput workloads

• Set technical direction for foundational backend architecture while remaining deeply involved in execution

• Make principled architectural decisions that balance iteration speed with long-term scalability, resilience, and maintainability

• Drive multi-service initiatives that cut across storage, compute, APIs, and blockchain infrastructure

• Anticipate scaling constraints and correctness risks before they surface, proactively designing durable solutions

• Establish patterns and standards for observability, reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence

• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, RFCs, and direct mentorship, influencing through technical depth and clarity of thinking

• Act as a technical anchor during high-pressure incidents, ensuring systems remain stable under load

• Improve internal developer velocity by evolving tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and service abstractions

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with multiple cycles of building, scaling, and operating distributed systems in production

• Proven track record of owning foundational backend architecture in high-growth or high-scale environments

• Deep expertise in Rust, Go, or Type Script, with strong systems-level intuition

• Strong understanding of distributed systems design: consensus, failure modes, replication, consistency models, and performance tradeoffs

• Extensive experience with database design and data modelling, including complex tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and durability

• Comfortable owning ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that span multiple services and teams

• Recognised as a go-to technical authority by senior engineers and peers

• High-agency and execution-focused. You shape direction by building

• Crypto experience is a plus

• We work in person

• Hours can be long and unconventional

• The pace is intense

• Expectations are high, and impact is immediate

• Working at Baton is not for everyone

• Unmatched ownership and autonomy

• Exposure to systems operating at the edge of crypto scale

• The ability to ship fast and see real-world impact immediately

If you’re motivated by responsibility, speed, and building products used by massive audiences, you’ll feel at home here.

Compensation Range: $500K - $1.5M