# Staff Solana Program Engineer \($300 - $500k salary\) - Company: [Batoncorporation]() - Location: New York - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $300K – $500K - Posted: January 20, 2026 ## Job description # 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. ## Apply [Apply on Batoncorporation]() Canonical job page: