Principal Full Stack Engineer – Ticketing, Travel Commerce

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Take charge of OleOle Sport’s technology platform.

• Design and develop the independent consumer website along with the foundational commerce platform.

• Integrate ticket and travel inventory from various providers.

• Own the technology from the architectural phase through to production.

• Make crucial technical decisions while personally constructing significant components of the platform.

• Create systems for inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation.

• Develop abstraction layers to avoid reliance on any single provider.

• Collaborate closely with the CTO, payments architecture leadership, product teams, design, and other platform teams.

• Recruit, mentor, and ultimately lead a small, high-performing engineering team.

• Maintain clear ownership of OleOle Sport while working in collaboration across the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of professional software engineering experience.

• Significant experience in roles such as Staff, Principal, Lead, Architect, or equivalent.

• Proven track record in architecting and developing 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 in designing systems related to inventory, availability, pricing, reservations/orders, checkout, payments, fulfillment, cancellations, refunds, and reconciliation.

• Experience in integrating various external suppliers, vendors, APIs, payment providers, or inventory sources.

• Solid understanding of transactional reliability, including idempotency, retries, concurrency, inventory holds, partial failures, asynchronous workflows, reconciliation, and recovery.

• Extensive full-stack engineering experience with modern consumer web technologies.

• Familiarity with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, or similar technologies is advantageous.

• Experience in designing highly available systems that can manage significant traffic surges 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 in architecting large-scale SEO or programmatic SEO platforms is a significant 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 teams, design, and other platform teams.

• Willingness and desire to remain deeply hands-on.

• Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and eventually leading a small, high-performing engineering team.

• Strong product judgment and ability to translate early-stage business requirements into production architecture.

• Capability to adapt to ambiguity, changing priorities, and early-stage company growth.

• Knowledge of football and international sports is a significant plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Deferred compensation begins accruing at the start of the engagement and is paid once OleOle secures its funding.

• Following funding, transition to a competitive market salary.

• Equity and token ownership will be available after funding.

• Meaningful long-term involvement in the business being developed.

• Remote work is permitted.

• Travel opportunities or requirements related to the role.