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Senior Backend Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure, Rust
Location
Texas
Posted
60 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure, Rust
Travoom
• Design and build scalable social feed infrastructure • Architect timeline and follow systems • Build real-time fan conversation infrastructure • Design notification and engagement systems • Help architect distributed event-driven systems • Build scalable APIs for social interaction • Work on moderation and communication infrastructure • Help optimize systems for global scale and low latency • Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
Job Requirements
- Strong Rust backend engineering experience
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Experience building high-scale APIs
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Experience building real-time systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
- Experience designing scalable communication systems
- Experience working with high-volume user engagement platforms
- Strong understanding of backend performance optimization
- Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred: Social feed infrastructure, Timeline systems, Follow/follower systems, Notification systems, Social graph infrastructure, Messaging systems, Real-time communication platforms, Distributed event systems, Trending or recommendation systems, Moderation infrastructure, Large-scale consumer platforms, High-concurrency backend systems
Benefits
- Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate
- Solutions not problems
- Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization
- Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
- Ability to adapt
- An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies
- Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
- An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
- Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus
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