Experienced – Sports Travel & Ticketing Platform Principal Full Stack Engineer

OleOle is building a global hard-to-get sports ticketing and travel platform, combined with a proprietary SEO-driven event data engine that generates millions of multilingual pages and fan experiences through real-time AI translation, commerce, payments including stable coins. The company is also creating the first true “WeChat for football”—a global football super app that integrates social networking, messaging, live scores, short-form video, gambling, commerce, payments, translation, and mini programs into a single ecosystem. The platform is designed for fans, clubs, brands, leagues, sportsbooks, creators, and merchants to communicate, transact, and engage directly within a football-first environment.

About the Role

OleOleSport is building a global sports travel, ticketing, hospitality, and fan experiences platform serving football supporters worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to lead the continued development of OleOleSport.com, our consumer-facing commerce platform. This role will focus on building and scaling the core systems that power ticket sales, hospitality packages, supporter travel, memberships, event experiences, and future commerce initiatives.

The ideal candidate has experience building high-traffic transactional websites in the travel, ticketing, hospitality, e-commerce, or marketplace industries, with a focus on customer experience, conversion optimization, search, checkout, payments, and operational scalability. You will work closely with company leadership, product, design, and engineering teams to shape both the technical architecture and product direction of the platform as we expand globally.

This is an opportunity to join an experienced team with deep roots in sports, travel, hospitality, and ticketing, and help build the technology platform that will support football fans attending matches and events around the world.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and scaling of OleOleSport.com, focusing on ticket sales, hospitality packages, supporter travel, memberships, and event experiences.
• Build and optimize high-volume transactional systems, including search, bookings, reservations, payments, checkout flows, customer accounts, and order management.
• Integrate third-party APIs, such as payment gateways, travel suppliers, ticketing systems, CRM platforms, marketing tools, and analytics services.
• Collaborate with leadership, product, design, and engineering teams to shape technical architecture and product direction.
• Ensure website performance, scalability, reliability, security, and customer experience best practices.
• Develop responsive web applications optimized for desktop and mobile users.
• Work with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and production support.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications.
• Proven experience developing consumer-facing platforms in travel, hospitality, ticketing, events, e-commerce, marketplaces, loyalty programs, or online booking systems.
• Strong full stack development experience with modern web technologies, including frontend frameworks, backend services, APIs, and relational databases.
• Experience designing and implementing high-volume transactional systems involving search, bookings, reservations, payments, checkout flows, customer accounts, or order management.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs, including payment gateways, travel suppliers, ticketing systems, CRM platforms, marketing platforms, analytics tools, and other commercial services.
• Strong understanding of website performance, scalability, reliability, security, and customer experience best practices.
• Experience building responsive web applications optimized for desktop and mobile users.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and production support.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working for an online travel agency (OTA), ticketing company, hospitality platform, marketplace, or large-scale e-commerce business.
• Experience building or supporting international consumer products serving multiple countries, languages, currencies, and payment methods.
• Experience with SEO-driven websites and organic traffic growth strategies.
• Experience with loyalty, rewards, membership, referral, or affiliate programs.
• Experience supporting high-growth consumer businesses and scaling platforms to large user bases.
• Passion for football, sports, travel, or live events.

Additional Information

• Creative problem solver who proposes and supports new ideas.
• Ability to adapt to a broad range of problems using diverse technologies.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and the growing pains of an early-stage company.
• Entrepreneurial judgment fostering independence over micromanagement.
• Understanding of football and international sports is a huge plus.
• Based in Austin, Texas; some travel required.
• Privately held and rapidly growing company.