Senior Frontend / Architect (React / Next.js / SSR)

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
• Social & Microblogging Infrastructure

Experience building high-performance feeds, timelines, engagement systems, notifications, or real-time social experiences.

• Messaging & Real-Time Interaction Systems

Experience building chat systems, presence systems, real-time updates, WebSocket-driven interfaces, or communication products.

• Video & Media Experiences

Experience building video-heavy interfaces, creator tools, media feeds, playback systems, or TikTok-style interaction experiences.

• 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!