Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

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Senior Backend Engineer developing backend architecture for OleOle's sports super app. Designing scalable systems in Rust for real-time messaging and video delivery with a focus on ownership.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GraphQLGRPCMicroservicesPostgresRustWeb3

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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
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

Comp & perks

Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
Deferred salary until funding is secured

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Hard Skills & Tools

RustPostgreSQLAPI designreal-time systemsmicroservicescachingWebAssemblygRPCGraphQLasync programming

Soft Skills

ownershipcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingarchitectural reasoningtradeoff analysisteam shapingindependenceclarity in explanationadaptability