Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ship full-stack AI features end-to-end, from scoping to deploying agentic systems
• Own 0-to-1 projects by collaborating with sales and operations to identify high-leverage opportunities
• Build and improve agentic infrastructure for production inference, evaluation, and monitoring
• Integrate AI into the marketplace across the stack, creating clean, native-feeling interfaces
• Develop scalable tools for intelligent matching, document understanding, and agentic workflows

Requirements

• Shipped and owned production AI/ML systems end-to-end
• Strong Python skills with foundation model integration experience
• Track record shipping ambiguous problems from concept to production
• Strong product sense and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Comfort thriving in limited structure and ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern AI frameworks and multi-step agentic systems
• Experience designing evaluation suites for LLM systems
• Experience operating LLM systems at scale including latency, cost, and reliability
• Familiarity with retrieval quality work: chunking, reranking, query rewriting
• Marketplace, fintech, or small business background
• Familiarity with Go, GraphQL, or React/TypeScript
• Background in NLP, information retrieval, or recommendation systems

Benefits

• Market-competitive pay and equity
• Fully-covered health benefit options and employer healthcare contribution
• 401k plan and short-term disability
• Four weeks paid time off, generous sick leave, and six weeks flexible Work From Anywhere days
• On-demand mental health support from Spill
• Laptop of choice, commuter perks, and in-office snacks
• Parental leave program

About the Company

Baton is a modern, data-driven marketplace for buying and selling small businesses. The company offers valuations grounded in real financials and aims to close deals 2x faster than the industry norm. Recently closing its Series A, Baton is building an AI-native platform to make small business transitions transparent, fast, and fair. The team works in person in New York City.