Travoom is the marketplace for bucket list travel experiences.
CTO – Experienced Startup, Hands-On Rust
Location
Texas
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
CTO – Experienced Startup, Hands-On 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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