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Travoom is the marketplace for bucket list travel experiences.
Founding Principal Backend Architect, Rust
Location
Texas
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Founding Principal Backend Architect, Rust
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 • Helping shape the backend team as the company grows
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
Benefits
- Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
- Deferred salary until funding is secured
- Long-term ownership and technical leadership
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