Senior Rust Engineer – Microblogging & Social Feed Infrastructure
reputed company 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
• scalable social infrastructure
This is not a generic backend role.
The platform combines elements of:
• Twitter/X
• reputed company
• reputed company
• reputed company
• live score systems
• real-time translated communication
inside a football-focused ecosystem.
Core 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
Technical Environment
reputed company is being built primarily in Rust.
Rust is a critical requirement for this role due to:
• scale
• concurrency
• performance
• low-latency communication
• real-time interaction requirements
The platform architecture is expected to include:
• Rust backend services
• distributed systems
• real-time messaging infrastructure
• event-driven architecture
• scalable APIs
• social graph systems
• notification infrastructure
• AI translation systems
• high-scale communication systems
What We’re Building
reputed company’s vision is to become the global operating system for football fans.
The platform combines:
• social networking
• messaging
• short-form video
• live scores
• gambling
• commerce
• mini programs
• AI translation
• football history AI
inside one interconnected ecosystem.
A major focus of the platform is real-time translated communication between football fans globally.
Fans should be able to:
• follow clubs and countries
• communicate globally without language barriers
• engage in live conversations
• share content socially
• receive real-time notifications and updates
Required Technical Experience
• 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
Preferred Experience
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
Ideal Backgrounds
This role may be a strong fit for engineers with experience related to:
• Twitter/X
• reputed company
• reputed company
• reputed company
• Mastodon
• reputed company chat systems
• real-time messaging infrastructure
• large-scale social engagement systems
Additional Preferred Skills
• Experience with WebSockets or real-time streaming systems
• 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 AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
• Experience working in startup environments
• Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
Soft Skills
• 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
Compensation
Compensation is currently deferred until funding closes. 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 u