Senior Front-End Developer (Rust-Integrated / AWS) startup experience

Job Description Summary

OleOle is building a global, football-specific social network and super-app for the world’s 3 billion football fans. The platform combines real-time social feeds, short-form video, live scores, messaging, AI-powered translation, deep football history, and a crypto-enabled rewards layer into a single native product.

We are looking for a Senior Front-End Engineer to help architect and build core user-facing experiences across web and mobile surfaces. This role involves owning major front-end systems, developing scalable and reusable UI components, and working closely with backend engineers on real-time, data-driven features. The ideal candidate has strong experience building complex consumer products, cares deeply about performance and UX, and is comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-moving startup environment.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional front-end development with JavaScript/TypeScript ES6+.
• Deep expertise in React (or Vue/Angular with willingness to switch) and ecosystem (Hooks, Context, Redux/Zustand, RTK Query, Next.js or Remix for SSR).
• Demonstrated experience integrating with Rust backends (or other strongly-typed services) via REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
• Solid grasp of AWS front-end workflows, including:
  • Cognito / Cognito Hosted UI for auth & SSO
  • API Gateway / AppSync for API orchestration
  • S3 + CloudFront for static asset delivery & edge caching
  • Amplify or CDK pipelines for CI/CD
• Proficiency with modern tooling: Vite/Webpack, ESLint/Prettier, Storybook, Playwright/Cypress, GitHub Flow.
• Strong UX sensibility: responsive design, WCAG-2.1 AA accessibility, Lighthouse/CLS performance budgets.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills; ability to explain complex topics to cross-functional audiences.

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!