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Travoom

Senior Backend Engineer – Rust

Travoom

Senior Rust Engineer building core microblogging and social feed infrastructure for a football super app. Focused on scalable systems and real-time fan engagement.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudDistributed SystemsFFmpegRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure
  • Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines
  • Optimize playback performance across mobile and web
  • Design scalable media delivery systems
  • Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement
  • Help architect recommendation and engagement systems
  • Work on low-latency media infrastructure
  • Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
  • Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong Rust backend engineering experience
  • Experience designing scalable distributed systems
  • Experience building high-scale APIs
  • Experience with media or video infrastructure
  • Experience working with real-time systems
  • Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
  • Experience building scalable content delivery systems
  • Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
  • Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines
  • Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred:
  • Video ingestion pipelines
  • Video transcoding systems
  • Streaming infrastructure
  • CDN optimization
  • Short-form video feed systems
  • Recommendation or engagement systems
  • Real-time media delivery
  • Upload and processing pipelines
  • Distributed event systems
  • Large-scale consumer platforms
  • High-concurrency backend systems
  • Experience with FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
  • Experience with WebRTC or streaming technologies
  • Experience with scalable caching systems
  • Experience with distributed databases
  • Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
  • Experience building globally distributed systems
  • Experience with recommendation systems or engagement ranking
  • Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
  • Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
Rustscalable distributed systemshigh-scale APIsmedia infrastructurereal-time systemsconcurrencylow-latency infrastructurecontent delivery systemsbackend performance optimizationvideo ingestion pipelines
Soft Skills
collaboration