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Job description
- 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, * 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
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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
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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
Requirements
- 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., Your Background
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7-12+ years of professional frontend or full-stack engineering experience building consumer-facing applications at scale
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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
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High-engagement mobile-first products
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Strong experience with React ecosystem tooling including Hooks, Context API, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, Next.js, or similar modern frameworks
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Deep understanding of SSR, frontend performance optimization, rendering strategies, hydration, caching, and SEO-focused frontend architecture
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Experience integrating frontend systems with high-performance backend services using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, or event-driven architectures
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Experience collaborating closely with backend teams operating strongly typed systems such as Rust, Go, or similar infrastructure-focused environments
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Strong understanding of frontend scalability, state management, component architecture, and reusable design systems
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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
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GitHub-based engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines
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Strong understanding of frontend performance, accessibility, and usability best practices including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse optimization, and WCAG accessibility standards
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Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering, product, and design teams
- Comfortable operating independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding, 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.
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Video & Media Experiences Experience building video-heavy interfaces, creator tools, media feeds, playback systems, or TikTok-style interaction experiences.
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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.
About the company
OleOle is building a football-focused social network and super app designed for the world’s 3 billion football fans.
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