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Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Baton Corporation · United States · Senior · Onsite

About Baton Corporation

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind pump.fun, the largest memecoin launchpad in production today. The systems are low latency, high throughput, live under constant load, and break if you get them wrong.

Key Responsibilities:

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

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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