Founding Principal Backend Architect, Rust
Travoom
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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About the role
- Designing and owning core backend architecture in Rust (async-first)
- Defining service boundaries, data ownership, and evolution strategy
- Designing scalable APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) for mobile and web clients
- Modeling and operating PostgreSQL as a long-term source of truth
- Architecting real-time systems (feeds, messaging, event-driven workflows)
- Making tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and scalability
- Working with DevOps while retaining backend architectural authority
- Reviewing critical code paths and preventing premature complexity
- Helping shape the backend team as the company grows
Requirements
- 7–12+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proven ownership of backend systems in production
- Strong, real-world Rust experience (async systems, not experiments)
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL data modeling and performance
- Experience designing APIs and explaining tradeoffs clearly
- Experience building or evolving systems that had to scale
- Ability to reason about architecture without hiding behind buzzwords
Benefits
- Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
- Deferred salary until funding is secured
- All current team members are working on a deferred compensation basis
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
RustPostgreSQLAPI designRESTGraphQLevent-driven architecturescalabilitydata modelingreal-time systemsDevOps
Soft Skills
ownershipcommunicationproblem-solvingtradeoff analysisteam collaborationcritical thinkingarchitectural reasoning