Staff Backend Engineer (Terminal)
Baton Corporation is a UK-registered development company that builds and maintains blockchain platforms for third parties, including pump.fun, a memecoin launchpad.
Projects
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.
Skills
About the Role
Baton Corporation builds and operates the technology stack behind pump.fun, a high-volume memecoin launchpad. This role focuses on solving complex backend problems, designing and operating distributed production services, setting technical direction, and mentoring engineers in an intense in-person environment.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale multiple times.
- Strong experience with Rust, Go, or TypeScript.
- Deep knowledge of databases and data modeling, including consistency, performance, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated ability to solve highly challenging technical problems.
- High agency, ownership, and ability to drive ambiguous problems to concrete outcomes.
- Crypto experience is a plus but is not required.
Responsibilities
- Own backend performance, scaling, correctness, and reliability challenges.
- Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for core backend systems.
- Design, build, and operate distributed production services.
- Identify systemic issues and drive ambiguous, cross-cutting problems to resolution.
- Mentor peers, review designs and code, and raise the engineering quality bar.
Benefits
- Unmatched ownership and autonomy.
- Exposure to systems operating at the edge of crypto scale.
- Ability to ship quickly and see real-world impact immediately.