Travoom

Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

Travoom

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Texas • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSGraphQLGRPCMicroservicesPostgresRustSDLCWeb3

About the role

  • You’ll work on scalable APIs, data pipelines, and video-processing infrastructure, helping us deliver a cutting-edge platform for millions of users.
  • Designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
  • Building and maintaining PostgreSQL data stores
  • Deploying and scaling systems on AWS
  • Participating in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) : requirements, design, coding, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), and release

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years of software engineering experience (preferably at early-stage startups or high-growth platforms)
  • 4+ years of experience working in Rust in production environments, ideally on scalable web or blockchain-native backends
  • Strong experience designing modern, scalable backend architectures from scratch — including authentication, real-time messaging, microservices, APIs, caching, and database design
  • Proficiency with Rust frameworks like Actix, Axum, Tokio, or Rocket
  • Experience with WebAssembly, gRPC, or GraphQL is a plus
  • Passion for decentralization, crypto, Web3, and building products that empower users
  • Comfortable working without product managers, defining scope, and leading engineering direction
Benefits
  • Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
  • Deferred salary until funding is secured
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
APIsRESTGraphQLPostgreSQLAWSRustWebAssemblygRPCmicroservicesdatabase design
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingindependencescope definition