Baton

Senior Software Engineer

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • Production experience shipping and owning end-to-end AI systems using LLMs and/or classic machine learning for real users with measurable outcomes.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, excellent Python skills, and experience integrating foundation models in production.
  • A track record of taking ambiguous problems from concept through production and demonstrating impact.
  • Strong product sense and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions independently.
  • 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 LLM evaluation suites, 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.
  • Preferred: marketplace, platform, fintech, or small-business experience, including matching algorithms or business transactions.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Go, GraphQL, or React and TypeScript.
  • Preferred: background in NLP, information retrieval, or recommendation systems.

Benefits

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