About the role
Job Description
OleOle is seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to build and manage our global LIVE Scores infrastructure across football, basketball, Formula 1, cricket, golf, boxing, tennis, and other sports.
The engineer will integrate Enetpulse’s sports-data APIs and develop a scalable, provider-independent backend capable of supporting hundreds of competitions worldwide. The architecture must allow OleOle to replace Enetpulse partially or entirely with alternative data providers without rebuilding the platform.
Key responsibilities include:
* Integrating sports-data APIs for live events, results, standings, rankings, fixtures, and statistics. * Designing flexible data models for different sporting structures, including team sports, motorsports, individual competitions, and combat sports. * Building real-time data processing, synchronization, caching, and monitoring. * Developing APIs that support unique frontend experiences for each sport. * Ensuring data accuracy, reliability, scalability, and efficient provider switching. * Connecting sports information to OleOle’s existing microblogging platform without interfering with its 4U recommendation system.
Requirements: Strong experience in backend development, third-party API integrations, real-time data systems, databases, and scalable architecture. Sports-data experience with Enetpulse, Sportradar, or similar providers is highly desirable.
We want an independent, technically exceptional engineer capable of taking full ownership of the LIVE Scores backend and collaborating with our existing frontend and design teams.
Qualifications
Qualifications
* 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience. * Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or similar technologies. * Proven experience integrating complex third-party APIs and external data providers. * Experience designing scalable, real-time data processing systems. * Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, database optimization, and caching strategies. * Experience with WebSockets, message queues, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems. * Ability to design flexible, provider-independent data models and API architectures. * Experience handling high-volume data synchronization, error recovery, and fault tolerance. * Strong understanding of REST APIs, data normalization, and microservices. * Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. * Ability to independently architect, implement, test, and maintain production backend systems. * Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate with frontend engineers and UX/UI designers. * Experience with sports-data providers such as Enetpulse, Sportradar, SportsDataIO, or similar platforms is highly desirable. * Familiarity with LIVE Scores, sports statistics, rankings, standings, or sports betting data is a significant advantage. * Ability to understand and model fundamentally different sporting structures across team and individual sports.
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!