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

WHO WE ARE

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind pump.fun http://pump.fun, the largest memecoin launchpad in production today. The systems are low latency, high throughput, live under constant load, and break if you get them wrong.

What You’ll DO

• You’ll design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy real-world load. This is a hands-on role with real ownership and immediate impact.

• Design and implement high-performance Solana programs in Rust that handle significant transaction volume

• Reason carefully about program correctness, security, and upgradeability in a production environment

• Optimise compute usage, account layouts, and transaction flows for latency and throughput

• Work closely with backend and frontend engineers to design clean on-chain / off-chain boundaries

• Debug, test, and ship changes that go live quickly and are used by hundreds of thousands of users

• Participate in design discussions around protocol changes, economic mechanics, and system constraints

• Own programs end to end: from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration

WHO YOU ARE

• 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

• Thoughtful about security, adversarial environments, and long-term maintainability

• Able to work independently, take ownership, and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information

• Motivated by operating real systems at scale

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

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.