Staff Backend Engineer ($300k - $500k salary)

- Own the hardest backend problems across the system, from performance bottlenecks and scaling limits to correctness and reliability under load

- Set technical direction for core backend systems, making principled architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

- Design, build, and operate distributed services that run in production and are relied on daily

- Identify systemic issues early and drive them to resolution, even when the problems are ambiguous or cross-cutting

- Raise the bar for backend engineering by mentoring peers, reviewing designs and code, and modelling strong engineering judgment

- Have built and operated distributed systems at scale multiple times

- Strong experience in Rust, Go, or TypeScript

- Deep knowledge of databases and data modelling, including tradeoffs around consistency, performance, and reliability

- Known for solving problems others couldn't

- High-agency and ownership-driven, able to take ambiguous problems and drive them to concrete outcomes without waiting for direction

- Crypto experience is a plus, but not required

- We work in person

- Hours can be long and unconventional

- The pace is intense

- Expectations are high, and impact is immediate

- Working at Baton is not for everyone

Why Join Us?

- Unmatched ownership and autonomy

- Exposure to systems operating at the edge of crypto scale

- The ability to ship fast and see real-world impact immediately

If you're motivated by responsibility, speed, and building products used by massive audiences, you'll feel at home here.