Founding CTO: Real-Time Social Platform Architect

Travoom; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Travoom is seeking a hands‑on CTO to lead the long‑term technical architecture for a next‑gen football platform. You will drive real‑time feeds, messaging, and media infrastructure while shipping scalable backend systems and guiding product‑oriented engineering decisions.

This is a founder‑level leadership role with equity and high‑growth potential. You will work closely with leadership on product strategy, engineering culture, and a pragmatic approach to tech tradeoffs, balancing speed and

Qualifications

• 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: social feeds/messaging/real‑time platforms; TikTok‑style video; fintech wallets; AI products; SEO/content infra.
• 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 to explain architectural decisions to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong entrepreneurial judgment, ownership mentality, and execution focus.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the long‑term technical architecture of the platform.
• Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust‑based systems.
• 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 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.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Real-time systems

Rust programming

Distributed infrastructure

Backend architecture

APIs and events

Databases and caching

Scalable infra

Social feeds

Messaging systems

Video/media infra

Fintech/wallet

AI-powered products

SEO/content infra

Tradeoff decisions

Mentoring teams

Startup experience

Communication skills

Entrepreneurial judgment

Job description

Travoom is seeking a hands‑on CTO to lead the long‑term technical architecture for a next‑gen football platform. You will drive real‑time feeds, messaging, and media infrastructure while shipping scalable backend systems and guiding product‑oriented engineering decisions.

This is a founder‑level leadership role with equity and high‑growth potential. You will work closely with leadership on product strategy, engineering culture, and a pragmatic approach to tech tradeoffs, balancing speed and