CTO – Experienced Startup, Hands-On Rust

🕒 July 3

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Travoom

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Marketing • Travel

Travoom is a trusted domain and service provider that has been in operation since 1999. The company offers a variety of digital services, including domain registration, web hosting, and collaboration tools through platforms like Google Workspace. Additionally, Travoom specializes in aiding corporate brands to manage, monitor, and protect their digital assets. The company is highly regarded and has been recognized as the Best Corporate Domain Registrar by financial strategists.

📋 Description

• 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

• 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

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