Travoom is the marketplace for bucket list travel experiences.
Senior Backend Engineer – Rust
Location
Texas
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Rust
Travoom
• Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure • Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines • Optimize playback performance across mobile and web • Design scalable media delivery systems • Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement • Help architect recommendation and engagement systems • Work on low-latency media infrastructure • Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers • Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale
Job Requirements
- Strong Rust backend engineering experience
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Experience building high-scale APIs
- Experience with media or video infrastructure
- Experience working with real-time systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
- Experience building scalable content delivery systems
- Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
- Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines
- Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred:
- Video ingestion pipelines
- Video transcoding systems
- Streaming infrastructure
- CDN optimization
- Short-form video feed systems
- Recommendation or engagement systems
- Real-time media delivery
- Upload and processing pipelines
- Distributed event systems
- Large-scale consumer platforms
- High-concurrency backend systems
- Experience with FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
- Experience with WebRTC or streaming technologies
- Experience with scalable caching systems
- Experience with distributed databases
- Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience building globally distributed systems
- Experience with recommendation systems or engagement ranking
- Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
- Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
Benefits
- 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
Related Guides
Related Job Pages
More Backend Engineer Jobs
• Design, develop, and maintain the Transactional Billing Automation platform, including tracking contract information, prepaid usage blocks, rollovers, and calculating projected usage and balances. • Build and support responsive web application and RESTful APIs to automate transactional billing operations and reduce manual processing. • Develop dynamic UI components for managing customer contracts, multi-product selections, invoice details, and billing summaries. • Implement business logic for prepaid balances, rollover amounts, block total calculations, invoice validations, and contract lifecycle management. • Collaborate with product owners, software engineers, and QA engineers to gather billing requirements and deliver scalable automation solutions. • Create reusable components, clean architecture patterns, and well-documented APIs to improve maintainability and long-term scalability. • Develop unit tests, integration tests, and automated validation processes to ensure billing accuracy and support safe application enhancements. • Participate in code reviews and enforced coding standards, security best practices, and performance optimization techniques. • Develop operational dashboards and billing reports to provide visibility into contracts, prepaid usage, rollover balances, projected customer usage, and actual consumption trends. • Follow development standards, branching strategies, and pull request workflows to deliver clean, secure, and maintainable code through reviews and testing. • Support Agile development processes, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Share ownership of the full development lifecycle from investigation and architecture to quality assurance, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance • Tackle complex problems with a practical, hands-on approach • Collaborate closely, lead PoCs and refactoring initiatives, and promote best practices • Actively contribute to enhancing the tech stack, which primarily includes Spring 5, Java 11+, AWS ECS, and Lambdas
Senior JavaScript/Node.js Developer, FinTech
Sigma Software GroupWe support enterprises, product houses, and startups with custom software solutions development and IT consulting.
• Design and implement large-scale software solutions and components using multiple technologies, with a primary focus on Node.js and ReactJS • Maintain a consistently high level of quality throughout all stages of the development • Communicate effectively to collaborate closely with the team and gain full context for complex tasks • Follow the best engineering practices, as well as company and client guidelines • Play supervisory, advisory, and coaching roles for less-experienced engineers on the team • Promote clean code, as well as design patterns and principles
Senior JavaScript/Node.js Developer, FinTech
Sigma Software GroupWe support enterprises, product houses, and startups with custom software solutions development and IT consulting.
• Design and implement large-scale software solutions and components using multiple technologies, with a primary focus on Node.js and ReactJS • Maintain a consistently high level of quality throughout all stages of the development • Communicate effectively to collaborate closely with the team and gain full context for complex tasks • Follow the best engineering practices, as well as company and client guidelines • Play supervisory, advisory, and coaching roles for less-experienced engineers on the team • Promote clean code, as well as design patterns and principles



