Batoncorporation

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

New York · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 160 days ago

TypeScriptGoRustDistributed SystemsCI/CDMentoring

About the role

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
Drive multi-service initiatives that cut across storage, compute, APIs, and blockchain infrastructure
Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, RFCs, and direct mentorship, influencing through technical depth and clarity of thinking
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
The ability to ship fast and see real-world impact immediately

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.
Crypto experience is a plus
We work in person
Hours can be long and unconventional
The pace is intense

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.
~$1B daily volume.

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