Backend Engineer

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in building and scaling cutting-edge platforms at the forefront of crypto and social finance. You'll work across the entire backend, delivering low-latency distributed systems at scale, in an environment where speed, ownership, and innovation are paramount.

• Architect, build, and ship high-performance solutions at speed, contributing directly to the growth of the world's largest crypto social network
• Work across the backend, from infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, DB optimisations, and REST APIs, ensuring high performance and scalability
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new features, balancing speed with quality in a fast-moving environment
• Solve complex technical challenges in a space where innovation and efficiency are the upmost priority
• Collaborate closely with a world-class team of engineers and product leaders to push boundaries and redefine what's possible
• Take full ownership of your work, from initial concept to production deployment and maintenance

• A backend engineer with deep experience building distributed systems, high performance computing, and working at scale
• Experienced with databases like clickhouse, timescaledb, or other time series databases
• Passionate about building highly-performant, scalable platforms that enable real-time user interactions
• Familiar with crypto, DeFi, or blockchain technologies
• A problem solver who thrives in ambiguity, quickly breaking down challenges and executing solutions
• High-agency and ownership-driven, capable of leading features end-to-end with minimal guidance
• Experienced in high-growth environments, startups, or fast-moving product teams where speed and impact matter
• Excited to work alongside top-tier engineers and contribute to a platform that's redefining how people interact with crypto, * must have experience with distributed systems, high performance computing, and working at scale
• must have experience with databases like clickhouse, timescaledb, or other time series databases
• must have experience with rust, go, or other systems programming languages
• must have experience with typescript
• good to have experience with nestjs
• good to have studied at an elite university like Stanford or Cambridge
• good to have founded a startup
• good to have worked at a big tech company like meta, amazon, or google

If you're the type who thrives in chaos, loves ambitious problems, and wants to build something game-changing, we want to hear from you. At our core, we believe in:

• Speed over perfection - ship now, iterate later
• Ownership over bureaucracy - every person here makes big decisions
• Talent density over headcount - we hire the best, no exceptions
• Building for the future - crypto moves fast, and so do we

We are Baton Corporation, a team of elite builders, moving fast and redefining what's possible. We're a high-growth software development company and proud contributors to pump.fun, the largest crypto social network globally. We build for the future.