Experienced – Travel & Ticketing Principal Full Stack Engineer

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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 focused on ticket sales, memberships, and experiences.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of experience in building high-traffic transactional websites in travel, ticketing, hospitality, e-commerce, or marketplaces, with a

Qualifications

• 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, or marketplaces.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the continued development of OleOleSport.com, focusing on ticket sales, hospitality, and events.
• Build scalable core systems powering commerce, travel, and fan experiences.
• Collaborate with leadership, product, design, and engineering to shape architecture and product direction.

Skills

Full stack

Frontend frameworks

Backend services

APIs

Relational databases

High-volume transactions

Third-party APIs

Performance & scalability

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

CI/CD

Cloud

Monitoring

Databases

Payments

CRM

Analytics

Job description

Experienced – Travel & Ticketing Principal Full Stack Engineer

• Full-time

OleOle

We are not looking for a generic full stack engineer. We are looking for an engineer who has built travel platforms, booking engines, ticketing systems, hospitality marketplaces, reservation platforms, inventory management systems, supplier onboarding tools, or large-scale consumer commerce products.

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.

No pathetic AI inflated resumes or using someone else's resume

OleOle is building a global football super app combining social networking, messaging, live scores, short-form video, gambling, commerce, payments, translation, and mini programs into a single ecosystem focused entirely on football.

The vision is to create the first true “WeChat for football” — a platform where fans, clubs, brands, leagues, sportsbooks, creators, and merchants can communicate, transact, and engage directly inside one global environment.

Unlike traditional social media platforms, OleOle is built specifically for sports fans and designed around communication, real-time engagement, commerce, and community.

The platform combines elements of:

• Twitter/X style social conversation
• TikTok-style short-form video
• WhatsApp-style messaging
• mini program ecosystems similar to WeChat

All integrated into a single football-first platform.

Core Platform Vision

OleOle is designed around several key ideas:

Communication First

Fans can communicate directly with:

• clubs
• brands
• sportsbooks
• creators
• other fans

through follows, messaging, sharing, comments, and real-time translated conversations.

OleOle is building a mini program platform that allows brands and partners to launch experiences directly inside the platform without requiring fans to download separate applications.

Initial mini program categories include:

• Games
• News
• Ticket Sales
• VIP Hospitality
• Gambling
• follow or unfollow mini programs
• communicate directly with brands
• share mini programs with friends
• receive translated content automatically

Brands can communicate directly with followers within platform communication limits designed to prevent spam and preserve user experience.

Real-Time Translation

A core component of the platform is AI-driven real-time translation across conversations, content, video, messaging, and mini programs.

The goal is to remove language barriers between global football fans and allow mini programs to operate across dozens of languages automatically.

This creates a global communication layer connecting fans, clubs, brands, and creators worldwide.

Wallet + Payments Infrastructure

OleOle includes an integrated Wallet ID and payment infrastructure powering:

• commerce
• rewards
• gambling
• mini program transactions

The platform is designed around programmable commerce and frictionless fan engagement.

OleOle is being built as a native Rust platform focused on:

• scalability
• performance
• real-time communication
• global infrastructure
• payments

The company is also building:

• AI translation systems
• football history AI infrastructure

The Long-Term Vision

OleOle’s long-term vision is to become the global operating system for football fans:

• social networking
• communication
• commerce
• gaming
• gambling
• content
• ticketing
• rewards

all inside one interconnected ecosystem.

OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off

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. You have worked on products where customer experience, conversion optimization, search, checkout, payments, and operational scalability are critical to success.

You will work closely with company leadership, product, design, and engineering teams to help 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.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications.
• Proven experience developing consumer-facing platforms in one or more of the following industries: 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.

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

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas, however, this role requires sometravel we are privately held and rapidly growing!