Senior Payments Platform Engineer
Baton Corporation is a UK-registered development company that builds and maintains blockchain platforms for third parties, including pump.fun, a memecoin launchpad.
About Baton Corporation
Baton Corporation Ltd develops and maintains blockchain platforms on behalf of third parties. It builds and maintains pump.fun, a memecoin launchpad processing more than $300 million in daily volume, and focuses on data-driven product development and technical problems including performance, recommendation systems, distributed systems, and Solana programs.
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About the Role
Design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure powering fiat-to-crypto payment flows, including Infrastructure as Code, secure networking and key management, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, reliability testing, cost engineering, and regulatory controls.
Requirements
- Hands-on production expertise with AWS core services
- Payments or financial services infrastructure experience
- Large-scale Infrastructure as Code ownership experience
- Production Kubernetes, EKS, or ECS cluster operations experience
- Experience running RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL for transactional workloads
- Production experience with Kafka, MSK, or Kinesis event streaming
- Experience with PCI DSS, SOC 2, or FCA/PRA regulatory obligations
- On-call experience for 24/7 financial systems with runbooks and incident response
Responsibilities
- Architect and operate multi-region AWS payments infrastructure
- Own Infrastructure as Code lifecycle with Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK
- Design and enforce network security architecture for regulated payments
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting safe high-frequency deployments
- Define and operate secrets and key management strategies
- Own observability infrastructure including logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting
- Design platform controls for PCI DSS, SOC 2, and regulatory audit readiness
- Manage payments data platform infrastructure and event streaming
- Build reliability tooling including SLO dashboards, runbooks, chaos tests, and load tests
- Own disaster recovery, backup strategy, and runbook testing
- Drive platform cost engineering and rightsizing
- Support and mentor backend engineers on platform best practices