Senior Backend Rust Engineer - Twitter/X Style Infrastructure

Senior Backend Rust Engineer – Twitter/X Style Infrastructure

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 platform focused entirely on football fans worldwide.

We are looking for a senior Rust engineer to help architect and build the core microblogging and social feed infrastructure powering the platform.

This role is focused specifically on:

• social feeds
• timelines
• follows
• fan conversations
• repost systems
• engagement systems
• notifications
• trending systems
• real-time communication
• scalable social infrastructure

This is not a generic backend role.

The platform combines elements of:

• Twitter/X
• Bluesky
• Reddit
• WhatsApp
• live score systems
• real-time translated communication

inside a football-focused ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable social feed infrastructure
• Architect timeline and follow systems
• Build real-time fan conversation infrastructure
• Design notification and engagement systems
• Help architect distributed event-driven systems
• Build scalable APIs for social interaction
• Work on moderation and communication infrastructure
• Help optimize systems for global scale and low latency
• Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers

Technical Environment

OleOle is being built primarily in Rust.

Rust is a critical requirement for this role due to:

• scale
• concurrency
• performance
• low-latency communication
• real-time interaction requirements

The platform architecture is expected to include:

• Rust backend services
• distributed systems
• real-time messaging infrastructure
• event-driven architecture
• scalable APIs
• social graph systems
• notification infrastructure
• AI translation systems
• high-scale communication systems

What We're Building

OleOle's vision is to become the global operating system for football fans.

The platform combines:

• social networking
• messaging
• short-form video
• live scores
• gambling
• commerce
• mini programs
• AI translation
• football history AI

inside one interconnected ecosystem.

A major focus of the platform is real-time translated communication between football fans globally.

Fans should be able to:

• follow clubs and countries
• communicate globally without language barriers
• engage in live conversations
• share content socially
• receive real-time notifications and updates

Qualifications

Required Technical Experience

• Strong Rust backend engineering experience
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems
• Experience building high-scale APIs
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• Experience building real-time systems
• Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
• Experience designing scalable communication systems
• Experience working with high-volume user engagement platforms
• Strong understanding of backend performance optimization

Preferred Experience

Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred:

• Social feed infrastructure
• Timeline systems
• Follow/follower systems
• Notification systems
• Social graph infrastructure
• Messaging systems
• Real-time communication platforms
• Distributed event systems
• Trending or recommendation systems
• Moderation infrastructure
• Large-scale consumer platforms
• High-concurrency backend systems

Ideal Backgrounds

This role may be a strong fit for engineers with experience related to:

• Twitter/X
• Bluesky
• Reddit
• Discord
• Mastodon
• Twitch chat systems
• real-time messaging infrastructure
• large-scale social engagement systems

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience with WebSockets or real-time streaming systems
• Experience with scalable caching systems
• Experience with distributed databases
• Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience building globally distributed systems
• Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
• Experience working in startup environments
• Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products

Soft Skills

• Strong product thinking
• Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
• Comfortable helping shape architecture from the ground up
• Comfortable operating with evolving product requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Interest in ambitious long-term platform design

Compensation

Compensation is currently deferred until funding closes. Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate.

Additional Information

Solutions not problems.

• Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices, let's 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

Job Location

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