Senior Staff Backend Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)

About this role

WHO WE ARE

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

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

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- 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

WHO YOU ARE

- 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 TypeScript, 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

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK HERE

- 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

WHY JOIN US?

- 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.