Job Description

Company Description

OleOle is building a global social network and messaging platform for football fans. Our mission is to create a single global community where supporters can follow their club and country connect with other fans message and call each other follow live matches discover content and ultimately access a broader ecosystem of football products and services.

The OleOle platform combines social networking encrypted messaging live scores video multilingual content payments digital wallets AI and Mini Programs designed around the global football community.

OleOle Sport is one of OleOles core business units focused on ticketing VIP hospitality and football travel. The business will provide access to hard-to-get match tickets hospitality experiences hotels and complete travel packages for major football matches and sporting events around the world.

OleOle Sport will operate through its own standalone consumer website while also becoming an integrated Mini Program within the larger OleOle platform connecting OleOles community directly to tickets travel hospitality and payments.

We are now looking for a technical leader and Website Architect to take ownership of OleOle Sports technology platform. This is a hands-on leadership position for someone capable of architecting and building the website and underlying commerce platform integrating ticket and travel inventory from multiple providers and ultimately building and leading the engineering team responsible for OleOle Sport.

The right person will have significant experience building high-scale consumer commerce travel ticketing booking reservation or marketplace platforms and will be comfortable owning the technology from architecture through production.

Qualifications :

We are looking for a highly experienced hands-on technical leader who can take ownership of OleOle Sport from architecture through production. The right candidate should be comfortable operating as both a Website Architect and senior individual contributor making critical technical decisions while personally building significant parts of the platform.

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience with significant experience at Staff Principal Lead Architect or equivalent level.
• Proven experience architecting and building high-scale consumer transactional platforms.
• Strong preference for direct experience in travel ticketing hospitality reservations booking platforms marketplaces or complex e-commerce.
• Hands-on experience designing systems involving inventory availability pricing reservations/orders checkout payments fulfillment cancellations refunds and reconciliation.
• Experience integrating multiple external suppliers vendors APIs payment providers or inventory sources and designing abstraction layers that avoid dependency on any single provider.
• Strong understanding of transactional reliability including idempotency retries concurrency inventory holds partial failures asynchronous workflows reconciliation and recovery.
• Deep full-stack engineering experience with modern consumer web technologies. Experience with React TypeScript Java Go Rust Python PostgreSQL Redis Kafka AWS Kubernetes or comparable technologies is valuable.
• Experience designing highly available systems capable of handling significant traffic spikes and high-value transactions.
• Strong understanding of security authentication payment security observability testing CI/CD and production operations.
• Experience with international and multilingual consumer products is highly desirable.
• Experience architecting large-scale SEO or programmatic SEO platforms including SSR structured data/schema canonical URLs hreflang internal linking sitemap architecture crawl/indexation management and web performance is a major advantage.
• Production experience with AI/LLM systems agents tool/function calling recommendation systems or AI-assisted content/data platforms is also valuable.
• Ability to work closely with OleOles CTO payments architecture leadership product design and other platform teams while maintaining clear ownership of OleOle Sport.
• Ability and desire to remain deeply hands-on. We are not looking for someone who only manages engineers or produces architecture diagrams.
• Experience recruiting mentoring and eventually leading a small high-performing engineering team.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to take an early-stage business requirement and turn it into a production architecture without requiring a large organization around you.

Current Compensation Structure

OleOle is currently pre-funding and this position begins under a written deferred-compensation agreement. This is not free work volunteer work or an unpaid internship. Compensation is earned and accrues from the beginning of the engagement and is paid once OleOle closes its funding.

Following funding the position transitions to a normal competitive market salary plus equity and token ownership giving the technical leader of OleOle Sport meaningful long-term participation in the business being built.

Our current team including the founder and senior technical leadership is operating under the same deferred-compensation model while we complete the funding process.

Additional Information :

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 using a wide array of technologies.
• Comfortable with ambiguity shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
• An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
• Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas however this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

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