About the role
Job Description
Senior Front-End Engineer Real-Time Consumer Platform • Social • Video • Messaging • Live Sports
Job Description Summary
OleOle is building a football-focused social network and super app designed for the world’s 3 billion football fans.
The platform combines: • Real-time social feeds and microblogging • TikTok-style short-form video • Live scores and match experiences • Messaging and mobile calls • AI-powered translation and football history • Rewards, commerce, and future crypto-enabled infrastructure
We are looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to help architect and build core user-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms.
This is not a ticket-driven implementation role.
We are looking for engineers who can take ownership of major frontend systems, make strong architectural decisions, and help shape the long-term direction of the platform.
You will work closely with backend engineers, product leadership, and design teams to build high-performance, real-time consumer experiences used by football fans globally.
Core Areas You May Own
• Social feeds and microblogging experiences • Real-time messaging and notification systems • TikTok-style video interfaces and engagement flows • Live score and match interaction experiences • Football history and SEO-driven content systems • Shared component systems and frontend infrastructure • Real-time data rendering and state management • Mobile-first responsive experiences across web and native applications
What You’ll Be Responsible For
• Architecting scalable frontend systems across web and mobile • Building reusable, maintainable UI components and frontend infrastructure • Developing high-performance real-time user experiences • Collaborating closely with backend engineers on APIs, event systems, and real-time workflows • Optimizing rendering performance, responsiveness, and frontend scalability • Contributing to frontend architecture, standards, and engineering direction • Helping establish long-term frontend engineering culture and technical quality
What We’re Looking For
• 7–12+ years of frontend or full-stack engineering experience • Strong experience building complex consumer-facing products at scale • Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture and performance optimization • Strong experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend tooling • Experience building real-time applications, feeds, messaging systems, or high-engagement products • Strong understanding of responsive design, frontend state management, and rendering performance • Experience collaborating closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams • Ability to operate independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding • Strong engineering judgment and ability to balance speed with long-term maintainability
Nice to Have
• Experience with SSR and SEO-focused frontend architecture • Experience building video-heavy or media-rich products • Experience with WebSockets, streaming, or event-driven systems • Experience working alongside Rust backend infrastructure • Experience with AI-driven consumer experiences • Startup experience building products from zero to one • Passion for football, sports media, or global fan communities
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role
• You have personally built and operated production frontend systems • You care deeply about performance, usability, and user experience quality • You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly • You understand how consumer products scale technically and operationally • You focus on practical engineering over unnecessary complexity • You are comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments • You value ownership, simplicity, and execution
We value real-world product experience, technical depth, and ownership significantly more than keyword-heavy resumes.
OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off
Qualifications
Qualifications
Your Background
• 7–12+ years of professional frontend or full-stack engineering experience building consumer-facing applications at scale
• Deep expertise with modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, including React and modern frontend architecture patterns
• Strong experience building complex, real-time user interfaces such as: • Social feeds and timelines • Messaging and notification systems • Live sports or live-content experiences • Video-heavy consumer applications • High-engagement mobile-first products
• Strong experience with React ecosystem tooling including Hooks, Context API, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, Next.js, or similar modern frameworks
• Deep understanding of SSR, frontend performance optimization, rendering strategies, hydration, caching, and SEO-focused frontend architecture
• Experience integrating frontend systems with high-performance backend services using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, or event-driven architectures
• Experience collaborating closely with backend teams operating strongly typed systems such as Rust, Go, or similar infrastructure-focused environments
• Strong understanding of frontend scalability, state management, component architecture, and reusable design systems
• Experience building responsive, mobile-first applications across web and native mobile environments
• Strong experience with modern frontend tooling and engineering workflows including: • Vite, Webpack, Turbopack, or similar build systems • Storybook or component-driven development workflows • Playwright, Cypress, or frontend testing frameworks • GitHub-based engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of frontend performance, accessibility, and usability best practices including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse optimization, and WCAG accessibility standards
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering, product, and design teams
• Comfortable operating independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding
Areas We Are Specifically Hiring For
1. Social & Microblogging Infrastructure Experience building high-performance feeds, timelines, engagement systems, notifications, or real-time social experiences.
2. Messaging & Real-Time Interaction Systems Experience building chat systems, presence systems, real-time updates, WebSocket-driven interfaces, or communication products.
3. Video & Media Experiences Experience building video-heavy interfaces, creator tools, media feeds, playback systems, or TikTok-style interaction experiences.
4. SEO & Football History Infrastructure Experience building SSR-driven platforms, large-scale content rendering systems, SEO-focused frontend architecture, or highly performant content experiences.
Nice to Have
• Experience working alongside Rust backend infrastructure • Experience with AI-powered consumer experiences • Experience with animation, motion systems, or highly interactive interfaces • Startup experience building products from zero to one • Experience supporting products with millions of users • Passion for football, sports media, or global fan communities
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role
• You have personally built and operated production frontend systems • You care deeply about usability, responsiveness, and performance • You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly • You understand how consumer products scale technically and operationally • You focus on practical engineering over unnecessary complexity • You are comfortable with high ownership and ambiguous environments • You value simplicity, execution, and long-term maintainability
We value real-world product experience, technical depth, and ownership significantly more than keyword-heavy resumes.
OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off
Additional Information
What We Value
• Solutions-oriented engineers who focus on solving difficult product and technical challenges rather than creating unnecessary complexity
• Strong problem solvers who are comfortable proposing new ideas, challenging assumptions, and helping build better systems rather than simply following existing patterns
• Engineers who can adapt quickly across a broad range of technologies, infrastructure challenges, and evolving product requirements
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and limited process
• Strong entrepreneurial judgment with the ability to work independently and take ownership without requiring constant direction or micromanagement
• Engineers who value simplicity, usability, scalability, and performance over buzzwords or overengineering
• Passion for football, sports media, global fan communities, or large-scale consumer platforms is a significant plus
Compensation & Structure
This role is currently structured as deferred compensation.
All current team members — including leadership, engineers, designers, and product teams — are currently working under the same structure while the company secures new funding.
This is not unpaid work.
Compensation is intended to convert into a normalized salary structure post-funding, in addition to: • Founding-level equity ownership • Long-term token participation • Significant influence over product and technical direction
We want to be fully transparent: • There is real startup risk • Fundraising timelines are unpredictable • Building at this stage requires resilience, ownership, and long-term thinking
At the same time, this role provides the opportunity to help build a globally ambitious consumer platform from the earliest stages with meaningful ownership and long-term upside.
OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off
Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas, however, this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!