Senior Backend Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure, Rust

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Senior Rust Engineer building microblogging and social feed infrastructure for OleOle's football super app. Collaborating across teams to design scalable APIs and real-time communication systems.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build scalable social feed infrastructure
Architect timeline and follow systems
Build real-time fan conversation infrastructure
Design notification and engagement systems
Help architect distributed event-driven systems
Build scalable APIs for social interaction
Work on moderation and communication infrastructure
Help optimize systems for global scale and low latency
Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong Rust backend engineering experience
Experience designing scalable distributed systems
Experience building high-scale APIs
Experience with event-driven architecture
Experience building real-time systems
Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
Experience designing scalable communication systems
Experience working with high-volume user engagement platforms
Strong understanding of backend performance optimization
Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred: 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate
Solutions not problems
Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization
Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
Ability to adapt
An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies
Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

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Hard Skills & Tools

Rustbackend engineeringscalable distributed systemshigh-scale APIsevent-driven architecturereal-time systemsconcurrencylow-latency infrastructurebackend performance optimizationcommunication systems