Full-Time Full-stack Rust Engineer

What We're Looking ForWe need a full-stack and backend Rust engineer to architect and implement the core infrastructure of OleOle. This person will be our technical North Star — working directly with the CEO and playing a foundational role before we expand the team with mobile, frontend, and DevOps engineers.This is a co-founder level opportunity for the right engineer.

What You'll Be Building

• A decentralized social graph with public profiles, clubs, and messaging
• Real-time chat and video sharing (similar to WhatsApp and TikTok)
• A blockchain-integrated, no-fee marketplace with cashback in OleOle tokens
• A multilingual content engine with AI translation into 200 languages
• A mini-program ecosystem allowing brands, teams, and creators to build apps inside OleOle (like WeChat)

Project Scope and Vision

OleOle is aiming to be the dominant global platform for sports fans. We will support over 200 countries, 20,000 professional teams, and millions of fans. Disrupting the ticketing, media, betting, content, and e-commerce industries across football, basketball, and beyond.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of software engineering experience (preferably at early-stage startups or high-growth platforms)
• 2+ years of experience working in Rust in production environments, ideally on scalable web or blockchain-native backends
• Strong experience designing modern, scalable backend architectures from scratch — including authentication, real-time messaging, microservices, APIs, caching, and database design
• Proficiency with Rust frameworks like Actix, Axum, Tokio, or Rocket
• Experience with WebAssembly, gRPC, or GraphQL is a plus
• Passion for decentralization, crypto, Web3, and building products that empower users
• Comfortable working without product managers, defining scope, and leading engineering direction
• Bonus: experience with blockchain integration, tokenomics, or building in no-fee marketplaces
• Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices, let's 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
• Exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
• Understanding of football and international sports is a plus

We are offering

• Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
• Deferred salary until funding is secured
• Long-term ownership and technical leadership
• A mission-driven, elite team with deep experience in sports, media, crypto, and startups

This role requires some travel.

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