Senior Front End Developer Jobs in Austin, TX (NOW HIRING)

Who We Are

Travoom is currently paused as we focus entirely on building OleOle - a football-focused social network, messaging platform, and sports super app designed for the world's biggest sport.

At the same time, oleolesport.com continues to operate as our curated football travel and hospitality marketplace, offering premium fan experiences around the biggest matches and tournaments in the world.

Both platforms are strategically connected:
OleOle is the fan engagement, social, messaging, and content platform
oleolesport.com is the commerce and travel experiences platform

Together, they are designed to create a complete football ecosystem for fans globally.

What We're Building

OleOle is building a next-generation football platform combining:
Social networking and microblogging
Messaging and mobile calls
TikTok-style short-form video
Live scores and match experiences
AI-powered football history and statistics
Real-time global fan engagement

We believe football deserves its own dedicated platform - not a small section buried inside general-purpose social networks.

Football is the world's biggest sport with more than 3 billion fans globally, yet no company has successfully built a true digital home for football supporters.

OleOle is designed to become that platform.

Why It Matters

Football fandom is global, emotional, tribal, and active every day of the year.

Yet today, the fan experience remains fragmented across disconnected social platforms, messaging apps, score apps, news sites, ticketing sites, and travel providers.

Fans move constantly between products that were never built specifically for football culture or football communities.

We believe supporters are looking for a place to truly "kick off" - a platform designed around how football fans actually communicate, follow matches, consume content, travel, and engage with their clubs and national teams.

Why We're Different

oleolesport.com removes the complexity from planning football travel experiences by combining curated ticketing, hospitality, lodging, and travel experiences into one streamlined platform.

OleOle extends that vision much further - creating a football-first platform built specifically around fan identity, conversation, live interaction, creator content, and global football culture.

This is not another generic sports app.

We are building a dedicated football ecosystem that combines social networking, messaging, content, live experiences, and commerce into a single connected platform.

OleOle - Where Fans Kick Off

Senior Front-End Engineer
Real-Time Consumer Platform Social Video Messaging Live Sports

Job Description Summary

OleOle is building a football-focused social network and super app designed for the world's 3 billion football fans.

The platform combines:
Real-time social feeds and microblogging
TikTok-style short-form video
Live scores and match experiences
Messaging and mobile calls
AI-powered translation and football history
Rewards, commerce, and future crypto-enabled infrastructure

We are looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to help architect and build core user-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms.

This is not a ticket-driven implementation role.

We are looking for engineers who can take ownership of major frontend systems, make strong architectural decisions, and help shape the long-term direction of the platform.

You will work closely with backend engineers, product leadership, and design teams to build high-performance, real-time consumer experiences used by football fans globally.

Core Areas You May Own

Social feeds and microblogging experiences
Real-time messaging and notification systems
TikTok-style video interfaces and engagement flows
Live score and match interaction experiences
Football history and SEO-driven content systems
Shared component systems and frontend infrastructure
Real-time data rendering and state management
Mobile-first responsive experiences across web and native applications

What You'll Be Responsible For

Architecting scalable frontend systems across web and mobile
Building reusable, maintainable UI components and frontend infrastructure
Developing high-performance real-time user experiences
Collaborating closely with backend engineers on APIs, event systems, and real-time workflows
Optimizing rendering performance, responsiveness, and frontend scalability
Contributing to frontend architecture, standards, and engineering direction
Helping establish long-term frontend engineering culture and technical quality

What We're Looking For

7-12+ years of frontend or full-stack engineering experience
Strong experience building complex consumer-facing products at scale
Deep understanding of modern frontend architecture and performance optimization
Strong experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend tooling
Experience building real-time applications, feeds, messaging systems, or high-engagement products
Strong understanding of responsive design, frontend state management, and rendering performance
Experience collaborating closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams
Ability to operate independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding
Strong engineering judgment and ability to balance speed with long-term maintainability

Nice to Have

Experience with SSR and SEO-focused frontend architecture
Experience building video-heavy or media-rich products
Experience with WebSockets, streaming, or event-driven systems
Experience working alongside Rust backend infrastructure
Experience with AI-driven consumer experiences
Startup experience building products from zero to one
Passion for football, sports media, or global fan communities

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

You have personally built and operated production frontend systems
You care deeply about performance, usability, and user experience quality
You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly
You understand how consumer products scale technically and operationally
You focus on practical engineering over unnecessary complexity
You are comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments
You value ownership, simplicity, and execution

We value real-world product experience, technical depth, and ownership significantly more than keyword-heavy resumes.

OleOle - Where Fans Kick Off

Qualifications

Your Background

7-12+ years of professional frontend or full-stack engineering experience building consumer-facing applications at scale

Deep expertise with modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems, including React and modern frontend architecture patterns

Strong experience building complex, real-time user interfaces such as:
Social feeds and timelines
Messaging and notification systems
Live sports or live-content experiences
Video-heavy consumer applications
High-engagement mobile-first products

Strong experience with React ecosystem tooling including Hooks, Context API, Zustand, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, Next.js, or similar modern frameworks

Deep understanding of SSR, frontend performance optimization, rendering strategies, hydration, caching, and SEO-focused frontend architecture

Experience integrating frontend systems with high-performance backend services using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, or event-driven architectures

Experience collaborating closely with backend teams operating strongly typed systems such as Rust, Go, or similar infrastructure-focused environments

Strong understanding of frontend scalability, state management, component architecture, and reusable design systems

Experience building responsive, mobile-first applications across web and native mobile environments

Strong experience with modern frontend tooling and engineering workflows including:
Vite, Webpack, Turbopack, or similar build systems
Storybook or component-driven development workflows
Playwright, Cypress, or frontend testing frameworks
GitHub-based engineering workflows and CI/CD pipelines

Strong understanding of frontend performance, accessibility, and usability best practices including Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse optimization, and WCAG accessibility standards

Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering, product, and design teams

Comfortable operating independently with high ownership and minimal hand-holding

Areas We Are Specifically Hiring For

1. Social & Microblogging Infrastructure
   Experience building high-performance feeds, timelines, engagement systems, notifications, or real-time social experiences.

2. Messaging & Real-Time Interaction Systems
   Experience building chat systems, presence systems, real-time updates, WebSocket-driven interfaces, or communication products.

3. Video & Media Experiences
   Experience building video-heavy interfaces, creator tools, media feeds, playback systems, or TikTok-style interaction experiences.

4. SEO & Football History Infrastructure
   Experience building SSR-driven platforms, large-scale content rendering systems, SEO-focused frontend architecture, or highly performant content experiences.

Nice to Have

Experience working alongside Rust backend infrastructure
Experience with AI-powered consumer experiences
Experience with animation, motion systems, or highly interactive interfaces
Startup experience building products from zero to one
Experience supporting products with millions of users
Passion for football, sports media, or global fan communities

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

You have personally built and operated production frontend systems
You care deeply about usability, responsiveness, and performance
You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly
You understand how consumer products scale technically and operationally
You focus on practical engineering over unnecessary complexity
You are comfortable with high ownership and ambiguous environments
You value simplicity, execution, and long-term maintainability

We value real-world product experience, technical depth, and ownership significantly more than keyword-heavy resumes.

OleOle - Where Fans Kick Off

What We Value

Solutions-oriented engineers who focus on solving difficult product and technical challenges rather than creating unnecessary complexity

Strong problem solvers who are comfortable proposing new ideas, challenging assumptions, and helping build better systems rather than simply following existing patterns

Engineers who can adapt quickly across a broad range of technologies, infrastructure challenges, and evolving product requirements

Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and limited process

Strong entrepreneurial judgment with the ability to work independently and take ownership without requiring constant direction or micromanagement

Engineers who value simplicity, usability, scalability, and performance over buzzwords or overengineering

Passion for football, sports media, global fan communities, or large-scale consumer platforms is a significant plus

Compensation & Structure

This role is currently structured as deferred compensation.

All current team members - including leadership, engineers, designers, and product teams - are currently working under the same structure while the company secures new funding.

This is not unpaid work.

Compensation is intended to convert into a normalized salary structure post-funding, in addition to:
Founding-level equity ownership
Long-term token participation
Significant influence over product and technical direction

We want to be fully transparent:
There is real startup risk
Fundraising timelines are unpredictable
Building at this stage requires resilience, ownership, and long-term thinking

At the same time, this role provides the opportunity to help build a globally ambitious consumer platform from the earliest stages with meaningful ownership and long-term upside.

OleOle - Where Fans Kick Off

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