Travoom

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SeniorBackendRustEngineerTwitter/XStyleInfrastructure

Austin, Texas, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Senior Backend Rust Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure at Travoom. Skills: Rust, Distributed systems, Real-time communication, Scalable APIs. Design scalable social feed infrastructure. Architect timeline and follow systems”

Industry & Context.

Social Networking
Problems you'll solve

Creative problem solver; Solve a broad range of problems

Eligibility Requirements

Requires some travel, Comfortable with ambiguity, Comfortable with shifting priorities, Comfortable with growing pains

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Rust backend engineering experience, Experience designing scalable distributed systems, Experience building high-scale APIs, Experience with event-driven architecture, Experience building real-time systems, understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure, Experience designing scalable communication systems, Experience working with high-volume user engagement platforms, understanding of backend performance optimization

Nice to Have

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, WebSockets or real-time streaming systems, Scalable caching systems, Distributed databases, Pub/sub infrastructure, Cloud-native infrastructure, Globally distributed systems, AI-assisted moderation or translation systems, Startup environments, Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products

What You'll Do.

Design scalable social feed infrastructure

Architect timeline and follow systems

Build real-time fan conversation infrastructure

Design notification and engagement systems

Architect distributed event-driven systems

Build scalable APIs for social interaction

Work on moderation infrastructure

Optimize systems for global scale

Optimize systems for low latency

Collaborate with engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with frontend engineers; Collaborate with mobile engineers; Collaborate with AI engineers; Collaborate with platform engineers

Communication Scope

Communication skills

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