Baton Corporation

Staff Solana Program Engineer ($300 - $500k salary)

Baton Corporation

Software Development Company

Competitive Salary

New York, United States (Onsite)

Engineering

Senior

Last updated 2026-05-14T06:02:14.985Z

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About the role

Overview

You will design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy real-world load, focusing on high-performance Solana programs in Rust, ensuring program correctness, security, and upgradeability.

Skills

Rust Solana Smart Contracts Security Blockchain

Candidate requirements

These are the minimum requirements a candidate must meet to be considered for this role.

  • Highly experienced engineer who has deployed production smart contracts or on-chain programs that operate at meaningful scale, with real users, sustained volume, and operational constraints
  • Understand that building at scale is different from deploying isolated contracts - you’ve dealt with performance bottlenecks, edge cases, and real-world failure modes

About Baton Corporation

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and maintains pump.fun - the dominant memecoin launchpad on Solana, processing $300M+ in daily volume.

Last year (2025), pump.fun generated $500M+ in profit, with a team of fewer than 100 people.

We operate at real scale. Changes we ship reach hundreds of thousands of users within days, sometimes hours.

How we work
- We ship to production daily
- We keep bureaucracy low and ownership high
- Individuals own features end to end
- Decisions are data-driven, guided by experimentation and the scientific method

What we work on
- High-performance systems at scale
- Recommendation systems and data pipelines
- Distributed systems
- Solana programs and on-chain infrastructure

What it’s like to work here
- 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

In return, you get:
- 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.

Open positions: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/batoncorporation

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