Principal Full Stack Engineer – Ticketing, Travel Commerce

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Principal Full Stack Engineer architecting OleOle Sport’s football ticketing, hospitality, and travel commerce platform. Building integrations, transactional systems, and the engineering team.

Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of OleOle Sport’s technology platform
  • Architect and build the standalone consumer website and underlying commerce platform
  • Integrate ticket and travel inventory from multiple providers
  • Own the technology from architecture through production
  • Make critical technical decisions while personally building significant parts of the platform
  • Design systems for inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation
  • Design abstraction layers that avoid dependency on any single provider
  • Work closely with the CTO, payments architecture leadership, product, design, and other platform teams
  • Recruit, mentor, and eventually lead a small, high-performing engineering team
  • Maintain clear ownership of OleOle Sport while collaborating across the organization

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Significant experience at Staff, Principal, Lead, Architect, or equivalent level
  • Proven experience architecting and building high-scale consumer transactional platforms
  • Strong preference for direct experience in travel, ticketing, hospitality, reservations, booking platforms, marketplaces, or complex e-commerce
  • Hands-on experience designing systems involving inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation
  • Experience integrating multiple external suppliers, vendors, APIs, payment providers, or inventory sources
  • Strong understanding of transactional reliability, including idempotency, retries, concurrency, inventory holds, partial failures, asynchronous workflows, reconciliation, and recovery
  • Deep full-stack engineering experience with modern consumer web technologies
  • Experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, or comparable technologies is valuable
  • Experience designing highly available systems capable of handling significant traffic spikes and high-value transactions
  • Strong understanding of security, authentication, payment security, observability, testing, CI/CD, and production operations
  • Experience with international and multilingual consumer products is highly desirable
  • Experience architecting large-scale SEO or programmatic SEO platforms is a major advantage
  • Production experience with AI/LLM systems, agents, tool/function calling, recommendation systems, or AI-assisted content/data platforms is valuable
  • Ability to work closely with the CTO, payments architecture leadership, product, design, and other platform teams
  • Ability and desire to remain deeply hands-on
  • Experience recruiting, mentoring, and eventually leading a small, high-performing engineering team
  • Strong product judgment and ability to turn early-stage business requirements into production architecture
  • Ability to adapt to ambiguity, shifting priorities, and early-stage company growth
  • Understanding of football and international sports is a huge plus

Benefits:

  • Deferred compensation accrues from the beginning of the engagement and is paid once OleOle closes its funding
  • Following funding, transition to a normal competitive market salary
  • Equity and token ownership following funding
  • Meaningful long-term participation in the business being built
  • Remote work permitted
  • Travel opportunities/requirement associated with the role