Software Engineer

Baton equips business owners and buyers with a modern, data‑driven marketplace to buy or sell, offering valuations grounded in real financials and allowing them to close deals 2x faster than the industry norm. We recently closed our Series A to scale this vision further. We are proud to be building in person in New York City.

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  Experience with modern AI frameworks and building multi-step agentic systems with tool use, planning, and human-in-the-loop patterns

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  Experience designing evaluation suites for LLM systems (offline + online), including rubric-based and model-graded evals

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  Experience operating LLM systems at scale—latency, cost, caching, fallbacks, rate limits, reliability

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  Familiarity with retrieval quality work—chunking, reranking, query rewriting, relevance tuning

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  Marketplace, platform, fintech, or small business background with understanding of matching algorithms or business transactions

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  Familiarity with Go, GraphQL, or React/TypeScript

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  Background in NLP, information retrieval, or recommendation systems

• Want to apply AI to real business problems at real stakes and scale—not just build demos

• Love small, high-trust teams with meaningful ownership over agents & capabilities that differentiate the product

• Prefer shipping to production and measuring performance over endless tinkering

• Are passionate about helping small business owners navigate one of the most significant moments in their journey

• Can balance “good enough for now” with maintainable, scalable systems—pragmatic about simple solutions vs complex models

• Embody low ego, high respect—direct, thoughtful communication; strong feedback muscle

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you — send a note with a few bullets on what you’ve shipped (especially production AI systems you’ve owned end-to-end), and what you’d be excited to build at Baton.

• Mission-driven work: empowering entrepreneurs and shaping the future of small business transitions.

• A collaborative, data-driven, and growth-oriented culture.

• An opportunity to make a significant impact at an early stage in our journey.

• We believe that democratizing access to small business ownership with reliable data and tools for buying and selling businesses will reshape the economy.

• At Baton, we’re building the AI-native platform that makes small business transitions transparent, fast, and fair as we support the millions of baby boomers who have poured their life into their small business.

• We’re already the largest marketplace in the space with nearly 100 closed transactions & thousands of listings in front of tens of thousands of active buyers on the platform.