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

Who You Are

• 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

What It's Like To Work Here

• 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

Pay

Compensation Range: $300K - $500K