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Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems
Location
Texas
Posted
26 days ago
Salary
Not specified
12 yrs expEnglishGraph QLPostgresRust
Job Description
• Designing and owning core backend architecture in Rust (async-first)
• Defining service boundaries, data ownership, and evolution strategy
• Designing scalable APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) for mobile and web clients
• Modeling and operating PostgreSQL as a long-term source of truth
• Architecting real-time systems (feeds, messaging, event-driven workflows)
• Making tradeoffs around consistency, latency, and scalability
• Working with DevOps while retaining backend architectural authority
• Reviewing critical code paths and preventing premature complexity
Job Requirements
- 7–12+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proven ownership of backend systems in production
- Strong, real-world Rust experience (async systems, not experiments)
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL data modeling and performance
- Experience designing APIs and explaining tradeoffs clearly
- Experience building or evolving systems that had to scale
- Ability to reason about architecture without hiding behind buzzwords
Benefits
- Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
- Deferred salary until funding is secured
- Long-term ownership and technical leadership
- A mission-driven, elite team with deep experience in sports, media, crypto, and startups
- Maximum influence and upside
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