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Travoom

Travoom is the marketplace for bucket list travel experiences.

CTO, Startup Experience, Rust

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 11-50H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Texas

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishRust

Job Description

CTO, Startup Experience, Rust

Travoom

• Define and lead the long-term technical architecture of the platform • Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust-based systems • Help build scalable systems supporting feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure • Oversee engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems • Partner closely with leadership on product and company strategy • Establish engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes • Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, tradeoffs, and implementation decisions • Help design future financial infrastructure including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems • Support AI-powered systems including translation, recommendation, search, and football history infrastructure • Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across all systems

Job Requirements

  • 7–15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, ideally within startups or high-growth consumer technology platforms
  • Strong hands-on engineering background with active involvement in architecture, systems design, and production codebases
  • Significant experience building and scaling modern consumer platforms involving real-time systems, high concurrency, and large-scale user engagement
  • Strong production Rust experience building asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure
  • Deep understanding of backend architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, databases, caching, and scalable infrastructure design
  • Experience building or operating one or more of the following:
  • Social feeds and microblogging systems
  • Messaging or real-time communication platforms
  • TikTok-style video or media infrastructure
  • Financial, wallet, fintech, or gambling infrastructure
  • AI-powered consumer products
  • Large-scale SEO or content infrastructure
  • Ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs balancing scalability, performance, speed, maintainability, and operational simplicity
  • Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining deeply technical and hands-on
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and limited process
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and execution focus

Benefits

  • Significant equity ownership
  • Long-term token participation
  • Founding-level influence over the company and platform

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