Senior Staff Frontend Engineer ($500k - $1.5m salary)

Baton Corporation • New York, NY

6d • $500,000 - $1,500,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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. As a Senior Staff Frontend Engineer, you’ll remain deeply hands-on while shaping the technical direction of our frontend platform. You’ll own the hardest frontend problems - performance under real load, architectural scalability, and correctness in complex, stateful systems.

Requirements

• Have repeatedly built and evolved large-scale production React systems serving real users under real load
• Deep understanding of browser internals, rendering pipelines, hydration, streaming, and performance profiling
• Strong architectural instincts - able to design frontend systems that remain coherent as product and team scale
• Expert in React, Next.js, and TypeScript, with fluency in state management strategies, caching models, and data-fetching tradeoffs
• Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems from the client side - including consistency, latency, and eventual state alignment
• Known for solving ambiguous, cross-cutting frontend problems others struggle with
• High-agency and execution-focused - you shape direction by building, not by delegating. Able to influence technical decisions across teams through clarity of thinking and strength of implementation
• Excited by high-scale consumer systems, crypto-integrated products, and fast-moving environments

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve large-scale frontend systems using React and Next.js that serve hundreds of thousands (and eventually millions) of users
• Define and drive long-term frontend architecture strategy while actively implementing critical parts of the system
• Own performance, reliability, and correctness across mission-critical user flows, including rendering performance, state management, caching, and data synchronization
• Lead the design of frontend systems that handle real-time updates, blockchain state changes, and high-frequency interactions without degrading UX
• Establish scalable patterns and abstractions that enable rapid product iteration without increasing systemic complexity
• Drive cross-functional architectural decisions with backend and Solana engineers, shaping clean client–server boundaries and data contracts
• Anticipate scaling bottlenecks and proactively redesign systems before they become constraints
• Lead multi-quarter frontend initiatives end to end - from RFC and design to rollout, monitoring, and iteration
• Raise the bar for engineering quality through rigorous design reviews, performance audits, testing standards, and operational readiness
• Improve developer velocity by evolving tooling, build systems, CI/CD, observability, and frontend infrastructure
• Act as a technical anchor during high-pressure launches or incidents affecting core user flows

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed