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

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 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 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! Who We Are Travoom is currently paused as we focus entirely on building OleOle — a football-focused social network, messaging platform, and sports super app designed for the world’s biggest sport. At the same time, continues to operate as our curated football travel and hospitality marketplace, offering premium fan experiences around the biggest matches and tournaments in the world. Both platforms are strategically connected: • OleOle is the fan engagement, social, messaging, and content platform • is the commerce and travel experiences platform Together, they are designed to create a complete football ecosystem for fans globally. What We’re Building OleOle is building a next-generation football platform combining: • Social networking and microblogging • Messaging and mobile calls • TikTok-style short-form video • Live scores and match experiences • AI-powered football history and statistics • Real-time global fan engagement We believe football deserves its own dedicated platform — not a small section buried inside general-purpose social networks. Football is the world’s biggest sport with more than 3 billion fans globally, yet no company has successfully built a true digital home for football supporters. OleOle is designed to become that platform. Why It Matters Football fandom is global, emotional, tribal, and active every day of the year. Yet today, the fan experience remains fragmented across disconnected social platforms, messaging apps, score apps, news sites, ticketing sites, and travel providers. Fans move constantly between products that were never built specifically for football culture or football communities. We believe supporters are looking for a place to truly “kick off” — a platform designed around how football fans actually communicate, follow matches, consume content, travel, and engage with their clubs and national teams. Why We’re Different removes the complexity from planning football travel experiences by combining curated ticketing, hospitality, lodging, and travel experiences into one streamlined platform. OleOle extends that vision much further — creating a football-first platform built specifically around fan identity, conversation, live interaction, creator content, and global football culture. This is not another generic sports app. We are building a dedicated football ecosystem that combines social networking, messaging, content, live experiences, and commerce into a single connected platform. OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off