Staff Backend Engineer ($300k - $500k salary)

Baton Corporation Ltd

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New York Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

Who We Are

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.

What You’ll Do

  • Own the hardest backend problems across the system, from performance bottlenecks and scaling limits to correctness and reliability under load

  • Set technical direction for core backend systems, making principled architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

  • Design, build, and operate distributed services that run in production and are relied on daily

  • Identify systemic issues early and drive them to resolution, even when the problems are ambiguous or cross-cutting

  • Raise the bar for backend engineering by mentoring peers, reviewing designs and code, and modelling strong engineering judgment

Who You Are

  • Have built and operated distributed systems at scale multiple times

  • Strong experience in Rust, Go, or TypeScript

  • Deep knowledge of databases and data modelling, including tradeoffs around consistency, performance, and reliability

  • Known for solving problems others couldn’t

  • High-agency and ownership-driven, able to take ambiguous problems and drive them to concrete outcomes without waiting for direction

  • Crypto experience is a plus, but not required

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.

Compensation (from employer):
Base: $300K – $500K • $75K – $500K Equity • Offers Bonus

About this role

Summary

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed backend systems, solving performance and reliability challenges.

Job title

Staff Backend Engineer

Experience level

multiple times building and operating distributed systems

Industry

software

Location requirements

Must be based in New York, in-person work required.

Salary

Base: $300K – $500K • $75K – $500K Equity • Offers Bonus

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

rustgotypescriptdatabasesdata modeling

Preferred skills

crypto

Specializations

distributed systemsbackendrustgotypescript
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

On-site City