Staff Frontend 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 is a UK-registered company that develops and maintains blockchain platforms on behalf of third parties. It builds and maintains pump.fun, described on its website as a dominant memecoin launchpad processing more than $300 million in daily volume. The company focuses on shipping data-driven products and solving technical problems including performance, recommendation systems, distributed systems, and Solana programs.
Skills
About the Role
You will define and evolve the frontend architecture, design and implement production React and Next.js applications, and deliver high-performance user experiences. You will optimize server-side rendering and hydration, implement resilient state management and data fetching patterns, and profile and improve frontend performance. You will own ambiguous, high-impact problems, ship production web applications, and raise engineering standards through pragmatic technical decisions.
Requirements
- Strong experience with React
- Strong experience with Next.js
- Multiple production web applications shipped using React-based stacks
- Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture
- Knowledge of server-side rendering, hydration, and performance tradeoffs
- Experience with state management and data fetching patterns
- Experience operating in fast-moving, high-ownership environments
- Ability to work on-site in New York City
- Experience in the crypto or web3 industry (nice to have)
- Experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up (nice to have)
- Familiarity with performance profiling, analytics, and frontend observability (nice to have)
- Prior work on consumer-facing products with large active user bases (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Define frontend architecture
- Elevate engineering standards
- Build high-impact user-facing systems
- Design and implement React and Next.js applications
- Optimize server-side rendering and hydration for performance
- Develop state management and data fetching patterns
- Profile and improve frontend performance
- Ship production web applications
- Own ambiguous, high-impact problems
Benefits
- Negotiable equity opportunities
- Significant upside
- Work on a high-visibility consumer crypto product