STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER PAYMENTS

About this role

## Tasks

Work Model: On-site
💰 Salary: Competitive
⭐ NYC candidates preferred; exceptional candidates based in London are also considered.

🔥 ABOUT THE ROLE

Baton Corp is looking for a Staff Software Engineer – Payments to design and build core payment services powering high-scale products in the crypto ecosystem.

This is a high-ownership engineering role where you'll solve complex, correctness-critical problems across payment flows, settlement, reconciliation, and financial infrastructure.

💻 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design and build reliable, scalable payment and financial infrastructure.
* Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to production and on-call.
* Solve complex problems involving payment processing, settlement, reconciliation and auditability.
* Build distributed systems with strong guarantees around idempotency, consistency and correctness.
* Work closely with experienced engineers in a fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment.
* Drive technical decisions and contribute to building systems from 0 → 1.

## Requirements

What We're Looking For

Above all, we want a very experienced engineer who solves problems—someone with the judgment to make high-impact technical decisions without layers of approval, and the instinct to know when to move fast and when a money-movement system demands you slow down and be sure.

Concretely, you:

Are an excellent backend / systems engineer: We build in Rust, and you'll write it here—but we're open to strong engineers from other systems backgrounds (Go, C++, Java/Scala, and similar). If you've built high-performance, mission-critical systems and care about doing it well, we're confident you'll get productive in Rust quickly; deep Rust experience is a bonus, not a gate.

Think in distributed systems: Consistency models, fault tolerance, idempotency and exactly-once semantics, async and event-driven patterns, sagas—you've designed systems that stay co...