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SeniorBackendRustEngineer–Twitter/XStyleInfrastructure
“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.
Creative problem solver; Solve a broad range of problems
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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