Baton

Software Engineer

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Base Salary

$140k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ship full-stack AI features from stakeholder scoping through deployment of agentic systems.
  • Own 0-to-1 projects and collaborate with sales and operations to identify and solve high-leverage business opportunities.
  • Build and improve production-grade agentic infrastructure for inference, evaluation, and monitoring.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into the marketplace through clean, native product interfaces.
  • Develop scalable intelligent matching, document understanding, and agentic workflow systems.
  • Own the full product loop from identifying important problems through production monitoring and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Experience shipping and owning production AI systems end-to-end, including real users, measurable outcomes, and operational responsibility.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, excellent Python skills, and experience integrating foundation models in production.
  • Track record of taking ambiguous problems from concept through production and delivering measurable impact.
  • Strong product sense and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
  • Comfort working with limited structure and turning uncertainty into clarity.
  • Preferred experience with modern AI frameworks, multi-step agentic systems, tool use, planning, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
  • Preferred experience designing offline and online evaluation suites for LLM systems, including rubric-based and model-graded evaluations.
  • Preferred experience operating LLM systems at scale, including latency, cost, caching, fallbacks, rate limits, and reliability.
  • Preferred familiarity with retrieval quality techniques such as chunking, reranking, query rewriting, and relevance tuning.
  • Marketplace, platform, fintech, or small business experience and familiarity with matching algorithms or business transactions are beneficial.
  • Familiarity with Go, GraphQL, or React/TypeScript is beneficial.
  • Background in NLP, information retrieval, or recommendation systems is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Employer contribution for all healthcare options
  • 401(k) plan and short-term disability
  • Four weeks of paid time off, generous sick leave, and six weeks of flexible Work From Anywhere days
  • On-demand mental health support from Spill
  • Laptop of choice
  • Parental leave program
  • In-person work in New York City
  • Equity and commuter perks are offered, with in-office snacks
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About Baton

11-50 employees

Baton is the best place to buy or sell a small business in America. Baton supports any small business by getting them to a successful sale on the first trusted and transparent platform in the industry. We empower owners with the right information upfront and then match them to serious buyers who see verified company data on our platform. Managing a small business is complicated. Even though small businesses make up more than half of the US economy, it's hard to get reliable data. How can anyone be expected to sell their small business if there’s no standard for figuring out what a small business is worth? We built Baton to unlock small business data for everyone. Owners use our platform to instantly get a more accurate valuation using public data and their own financials. We believe every small business owner deserves the support they need to take their next step. That journey starts with Baton. Baton is backed by Giant Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and a syndicate of world-class angel investors.

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