Senior Backend Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure, Rust

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Job Description:

  • 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:

  • 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:

  • 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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