Senior Backend Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure (Rust)

Travoom • Austin, TX

5h

About The Position

OleOle is building a global football super app combining social networking, messaging, live scores, short-form video, gambling, commerce, payments, translation, and mini programs into a single platform focused entirely on football fans worldwide. We are looking for a senior Rust engineer to help architect and build the core microblogging and social feed infrastructure powering the platform. This role is focused specifically on social feeds, timelines, follows, fan conversations, repost systems, engagement systems, notifications, trending systems, real-time communication, and scalable social infrastructure. This is not a generic backend role. The platform combines elements of Twitter/X, Bluesky, Reddit, WhatsApp, live score systems, and real-time translated communication inside a football-focused ecosystem.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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
• WebSockets or real-time streaming systems
• Scalable caching systems
• Distributed databases
• Pub/sub infrastructure
• Cloud-native infrastructure
• Globally distributed systems
• AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
• Startup environments
• Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
• Strong product thinking
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
• Comfortable helping shape architecture from the ground up
• Comfortable operating with evolving product requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Interest in ambitious long-term platform design
• Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Equity and token participation may be available

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed