Solana Program Engineer

Solana Program Engineer

Baton Corporation

New York, NY, USA

Posted on Jan 23, 2026 Apply now Location

New York

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Who We Are

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind 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.

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