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

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 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.