Backend Software Engineer (Rust)

We're looking for a Backend Software Engineer with deep Rust experience to help build the core systems powering a next-generation football gaming platform. You will design and ship backend services that keep millions of players connected, synchronized, and competing at scale. This is a senior, high-ownership role for someone who has built distributed systems in production, knows how to make the right architectural tradeoffs, and wants to work on a platform where football culture and gaming meet at a global level.

If you have strong Rust fundamentals, real experience with high-load real-time systems, and a collaborative approach to technical leadership, this role is built for you.

Why You'll Want to Join

• You will be paid in USD (bi-monthly: every 15th and 30th)
• Paid Time Off in accordance with company policy
• Observance of Holidays per company guidelines
• 100% remote setup so you can work wherever you're most productive
• Join a venture-backed startup led by industry veterans in gaming and football
• Build products used by a global community of players and fans
• Work with an experienced engineering team that values ownership, performance, and craft

What You'll Work On

Core Backend System Development

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance backend services using Rust
• Build and optimize distributed systems that handle large-scale traffic and real-time player interactions
• Contribute to the evolution of backend architecture and internal APIs
• Own your systems end to end from design through deployment and ongoing reliability

Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Participate in and lead architecture discussions, technical design sessions, and code reviews
• Help define engineering standards, patterns, and best practices as the team grows
• Translate complex product requirements into well-scoped, maintainable technical solutions
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers across the team

Production Reliability and Observability

• Work closely with Ops and Platform teams to ensure stability, observability, and scalability in production
• Monitor performance metrics and proactively identify and resolve issues before they affect players
• Build systems with reliability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation in mind from the start

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and QA to ship product features on time and at high quality
• Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Help refine team workflows, processes, and tooling as the studio scales

What You Bring

• 4+ years of professional backend development experience
• 1 to 2+ years of production Rust experience with a strong command of the language including concurrency, memory safety, and performance optimization
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, system design, and API architecture
• Experience designing and scaling high-load, real-time applications
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred, and containerized environments
• Familiarity with monitoring, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD workflows
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive technical decisions independently
• Clear, collaborative communication across engineering and product teams

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in game development or game backend systems
• Familiarity with matchmaking, leaderboards, or real-time event systems
• Experience with game-specific infrastructure challenges such as low-latency networking or session management
• Genuine love for football and understanding of the culture around the sport

How to Apply

Please include:

1. Your updated resume
2. A short Loom video (1 to 2 minutes) introducing yourself and walking through a distributed system you designed or scaled, what the technical challenges were, and how you approached solving them

Only candidates who submit a Loom video will be moved to the next step of the hiring process.

If you are a senior Rust engineer who wants to build systems that run at global scale, work with a team that takes technical craft seriously, and wants to be part of a platform where football and gaming come together, this role gives you the ownership and the technical scope to do your best work.