Principal Full Stack Engineer

Description

• Take ownership of OleOle Sport’s technology platform • Architect and build the standalone consumer website and underlying commerce platform • Integrate ticket and travel inventory from multiple providers • Own the technology from architecture through production • Make critical technical decisions while personally building significant parts of the platform • Design systems for inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation • Design abstraction layers that avoid dependency on any single provider • Work closely with the CTO, payments architecture leadership, product, design, and other platform teams • Recruit, mentor, and eventually lead a small, high-performing engineering team • Maintain clear ownership of OleOle Sport while collaborating across the organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience • Significant experience at Staff, Principal, Lead, Architect, or equivalent level • Proven experience architecting and building high-scale consumer transactional platforms • Strong preference for direct experience in travel, ticketing, hospitality, reservations, booking platforms, marketplaces, or complex e-commerce • Hands-on experience designing systems involving inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation • Experience integrating multiple external suppliers, vendors, APIs, payment providers, or inventory sources • Strong understanding of transactional reliability, including idempotency, retries, concurrency, inventory holds, partial failures, asynchronous workflows, reconciliation, and recovery • Deep full-stack engineering experience with modern consumer web technologies • Experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, or comparable technologies is valuable • Experience designing highly available systems capable of handling significant traffic spikes and high-value transactions • Strong understanding of security, authentication, payment security, observability, testing, CI/CD, and production operations • Experience with international and multilingual consumer products is highly desirable • Experience architecting large-scale SEO or programmatic SEO platforms is a major advantage • Production experience with AI/LLM systems, agents, tool/function calling, recommendation systems, or AI-assisted content/data platforms is valuable • Ability to work closely with the CTO, payments architecture leadership, product, design, and other platform teams • Ability and desire to remain deeply hands-on • Experience recruiting, mentoring, and eventually leading a small, high-performing engineering team • Strong product judgment and ability to turn early-stage business requirements into production architecture • Ability to adapt to ambiguity, shifting priorities, and early-stage company growth • Understanding of football and international sports is a huge plus

Benefits

• Deferred compensation accrues from the beginning of the engagement and is paid once OleOle closes its funding • Following funding, transition to a normal competitive market salary • Equity and token ownership following funding • Meaningful long-term participation in the business being built • Remote work permitted • Travel opportunities/requirement associated with the role

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