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
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
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 t
Benefits
Paid time off
Additional Information
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
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