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Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 11-50H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Texas

Posted

76 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishGraphQLPostgreSQLRust

Job Description

Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

Travoom

• Designing and owning core backend architecture in Rust (async-first) • Defining service boundaries, data ownership, and evolution strategy • Designing scalable APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) for mobile and web clients • Modeling and operating PostgreSQL as a long-term source of truth • Architecting real-time systems (feeds, messaging, event-driven workflows) • Making tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and scalability • Working with DevOps while retaining backend architectural authority • Reviewing critical code paths and preventing premature complexity

Job Requirements

  • 7–12+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Proven ownership of backend systems in production
  • Strong, real-world Rust experience (async systems, not experiments)
  • Deep understanding of PostgreSQL data modeling and performance
  • Experience designing APIs and explaining tradeoffs clearly
  • Experience building or evolving systems that had to scale
  • Ability to reason about architecture without hiding behind buzzwords
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company

Benefits

  • Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
  • Deferred salary until funding is secured
  • Long-term ownership and technical leadership

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