Lead Backend Rust Engineer

What Were Looking For

About the Role
Were looking for an experienced Rust developer to join our core engineering team building high-performance backend services. Youll work on scalable APIs data pipelines and video-processing infrastructure helping us deliver a cutting-edge platform for millions of users.

What Youll Work On

• Backend services in Rust (non-blockchain; token experience a plus)

• Designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)

• Building and maintaining PostgreSQL data stores

• Deploying and scaling systems on AWS

• Participating in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): requirements design coding testing (unit integration end-to-end) and release

• Optional projects: ETL/ELT data pipelines large-scale video processing/storage/serving on AWS

Must-Have Qualifications

• 35 years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong production Rust skills (not just hobby projects)

• Solid understanding of REST and GraphQL (able to explain trade-offs)

• PostgreSQL experience

• Familiarity with AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS etc.)

• Experience with agile or scrum workflows and multiple types of testing

Nice-to-Have Extras

• Rust GraphQL experience (substantial bonus)

• ETL/ELT pipeline development

• Experience processing storing or serving large volumes of video content on AWS

  About the Role
  Were looking for an experienced Rust developer to join our core engineering team building high-performance backend services. Youll work on scalable APIs data pipelines and video-processing infrastructure helping us deliver a cutting-edge platform for millions of users.

  What Youll Work On

• Backend services in Rust (non-blockchain; token experience a plus)

• Designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)

• Building and maintaining PostgreSQL data stores

• Deploying and scaling systems on AWS

• Must-Have Qualifications

• 24 years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong production Rust skills (not just hobby projects)

• Solid understanding of REST and GraphQL (able to explain trade-offs)

• PostgreSQL experience

• Familiarity with AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS etc.)

• Experience with agile or scrum workflows and multiple types of testing

• Nice-to-Have Extras

• Rust GraphQL experience (substantial bonus)

• ETL/ELT pipeline development

• Experience processing storing or serving large volumes of video content on AWS

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• Participating in the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): requirements design coding testing (unit integration end-to-end) and release

• Optional projects: ETL/ELT data pipelines large-scale video processing/storage/serving on AWS

What Youll Be Building

Youll lay the foundation for an ambitious native Rust platform that includes:

• A decentralized social graph with public profiles clubs and messaging
• Real-time chat and video sharing (similar to WhatsApp and TikTok)
• A blockchain-integrated no-fee marketplace with cashback in OleOle tokens
• A multilingual content engine with AI translation into 200 languages
• A mini-program ecosystem allowing brands teams and creators to build apps inside OleOle (like WeChat)

Youll own and scale:

• Authentication and user identity (phone-based and wallet-based)
• Token-based rewards system
• API architecture for mobile and web frontends
• Messaging and real-time communication (event streams sockets)
• Smart routing caching layers and database infrastructure

Project Scope and Vision

This isnt a basic MVP OleOle is aiming to be the dominant global platform for sports fans:

• Supporting over 200 countries 20000 professional teams and millions of fans
• Disrupting the ticketing media betting content and e-commerce industries across football basketball and beyond
• Backed by exclusive partnerships with federations like the Asian Football Confederation and expansion plans into Latin America Europe and Asia
• Launching in 200 languages with global crypto wallets real-time updates and embedded commerce

Were not just building an app were building an ecosystem.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Your Background

• 7-10 years of software engineering experience (preferably at early-stage startups or high-growth platforms)
• 4 years of experience working in Rust in production environments ideally on scalable web or blockchain-native backends
• Strong experience designing modern scalable backend architectures from scratch including authentication real-time messaging microservices APIs caching and database design
• Proficiency with Rust frameworks like Actix Axum Tokio or Rocket
• Experience with WebAssembly gRPC or GraphQL is a plus
• Passion for decentralization crypto Web3 and building products that empower users
• Comfortable working without product managers defining scope and leading engineering direction
• Bonus: experience with blockchain integration tokenomics or building in no-fee marketplaces

OleOle Where Fans Kick Off!

Additional Information :

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

• We are offering:

• Founding engineer-level equity and token allocation
• Deferred salary until funding is secured
• All current team members are working on a deferred compensation basis we lost our funding two months ago and made the decision to build while we raise. This comes with real risk. Closing funding could take two months or it could take five but were committed to this vision and were looking for someone whos equally passionate and resilient.
• Long-term ownership and technical leadership
• A mission-driven elite team with deep experience in sports media crypto and startups

• Youll be one of the first engineers which means maximum influence and upside.

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

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time