CTO, Co-Founder, Hands-On Rust, Startup Experience

Travoom

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) leading technical architecture and engineering for a football-focused platform. Requires hands-on experience with Rust and startup environments.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Rust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and lead the long-term technical architecture of the platform
Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust-based systems
Help build scalable systems supporting feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure
Oversee engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems
Partner closely with leadership on product and company strategy
Establish engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes
Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, tradeoffs, and implementation decisions
Help design future financial infrastructure including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems
Support AI-powered systems including translation, recommendation, search, and football history infrastructure
Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across all systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

7–15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, ideally within startups or high-growth consumer technology platforms
Strong hands-on engineering background with active involvement in architecture, systems design, and production codebases
Significant experience building and scaling modern consumer platforms involving real-time systems, high concurrency, and large-scale user engagement
Strong production Rust experience building asynchronous backend systems and distributed infrastructure
Deep understanding of backend architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, databases, caching, and scalable infrastructure design
Experience building or operating one or more of the following:
Social feeds and microblogging systems
Messaging or real-time communication platforms
TikTok-style video or media infrastructure
Financial, wallet, fintech, or gambling infrastructure
AI-powered consumer products
Large-scale SEO or content infrastructure
Ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs balancing scalability, performance, speed, maintainability, and operational simplicity
Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining deeply technical and hands-on
Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and limited process
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and execution focus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Significant equity ownership
Long-term token participation
Founding-level influence over the company and platform

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Hard Skills & Tools

Rustbackend architectureasynchronous systemsdistributed infrastructureAPIsevent-driven systemsdatabasescachingscalable infrastructure designreal-time systems

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcommunication skillsmentoringentrepreneurial judgmentownership mentalityexecution focusability to make technical tradeoffscollaboration with leadershipestablishing engineering cultureoperating in ambiguity