Senior Backend Engineer — LIVE Sports Data & Multi-Sport Platform

Company Description 

OleOle is building a global social network and messaging platform for football fans. Our mission is to create a single global community where supporters can follow their club and country, connect with other fans, message and call each other, follow live matches, discover content, and ultimately access a broader ecosystem of football products and services.

The OleOle platform combines social networking, encrypted messaging, live scores, video, multilingual content, payments, digital wallets, AI, and Mini Programs designed around the global football community.

OleOle Sport is one of OleOle’s core business units, focused on ticketing, VIP hospitality, and football travel. The business will provide access to hard-to-get match tickets, hospitality experiences, hotels, and complete travel packages for major football matches and sporting events around the world.

OleOle Sport will operate through its own standalone consumer website while also becoming an integrated Mini Program within the larger OleOle platform, connecting OleOle’s community directly to tickets, travel, hospitality, and payments.

We are now looking for a technical leader and Website Architect to take ownership of OleOle Sport’s technology platform. This is a hands-on leadership position for someone capable of architecting and building the website and underlying commerce platform, integrating ticket and travel inventory from multiple providers, and ultimately building and leading the engineering team responsible for OleOle Sport.

The right person will have significant experience building high-scale consumer commerce, travel, ticketing, booking, reservation, or marketplace platforms and will be comfortable owning the technology from architecture through production.

OleOle — Where Fans Kick Off.

OleOle is seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to build and manage our global LIVE Scores infrastructure across football, basketball, Formula 1, cricket, golf, boxing, tennis, and other sports.

The engineer will integrate Enetpulse’s sports-data APIs and develop a scalable, provider-independent backend capable of supporting hundreds of competitions worldwide. The architecture must allow OleOle to replace Enetpulse partially or entirely with alternative data providers without rebuilding the platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Integrating sports-data APIs for live events, results, standings, rankings, fixtures, and statistics.
• Designing flexible data models for different sporting structures, including team sports, motorsports, individual competitions, and combat sports.
• Building real-time data processing, synchronization, caching, and monitoring.
• Developing APIs that support unique frontend experiences for each sport.
• Ensuring data accuracy, reliability, scalability, and efficient provider switching.
• Connecting sports information to OleOle’s existing microblogging platform without interfering with its 4U recommendation system.

Requirements: Strong experience in backend development, third-party API integrations, real-time data systems, databases, and scalable architecture. Sports-data experience with Enetpulse, Sportradar, or similar providers is highly desirable.

We want an independent, technically exceptional engineer capable of taking full ownership of the LIVE Scores backend and collaborating with our existing frontend and design teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in backend development using Node.js, Python, Go, Java, or similar technologies.
• Proven experience integrating complex third-party APIs and external data providers.
• Experience designing scalable, real-time data processing systems.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, database optimization, and caching strategies.
• Experience with WebSockets, message queues, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Ability to design flexible, provider-independent data models and API architectures.
• Experience handling high-volume data synchronization, error recovery, and fault tolerance.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, data normalization, and microservices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Ability to independently architect, implement, test, and maintain production backend systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate with frontend engineers and UX/UI designers.
• Experience with sports-data providers such as Enetpulse, Sportradar, SportsDataIO, or similar platforms is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with LIVE Scores, sports statistics, rankings, standings, or sports betting data is a significant advantage.
• Ability to understand and model fundamentally different sporting structures across team and individual sports.

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 some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!