Full-Time Fullstack/Backend Rust Engineer

What We’re Looking ForWe need a fullstack 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)

You’ll own and scale:

• Authentication and user identity (phone-based and wallet-based)
• Token-based rewards system
• API architecture for mobile and web frontends
• Messaging and real-time communication (event streams, sockets)
• Smart routing, caching layers, and database infrastructure

Project Scope and Vision

• Supporting 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
• Backed by exclusive partnerships with federations like the Asian Football Confederation, and expansion plans into Latin America, Europe, and Asia
• Launching in 200 languages with global crypto wallets, real-time updates, and embedded commerce

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

OleOle - Solutions not problems

• Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization.
• Not interested in best practices, lets 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
• An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
• Understanding of football and international sports a huge 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
• You’ll be one of the first engineers — which means maximum influence and upside.

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