Backend Software Engineer (Rust)

Hire Overseas is a venture-backed startup led by industry veterans in gaming and football, building a next-generation football gaming platform used by a global community of players and fans.

• 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

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

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