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About OleOle

OleOle is building the world’s leading social network and messaging platform for football fans —a super app designed to bring together the global football community in a way never seen before. Inspired by platforms like WeChat, our decentralized ecosystem allows fans to connect, create content, and engage with clubs, brands, and fellow supporters. Why does it matter? Football is the world’s most popular sport, with 2 billion fans worldwide, yet no dedicated social network exists to unite them. OleOle is solving this by providing an interactive platform where users get live scores, exclusive team content, fan-driven discussions, and even the ability to buy hard-to-get tickets, all in one place. In the next phase, OleOle will integrate live match betting and an e-commerce marketplace, making it the ultimate hub for everything football. A football Super App

Job Description

Are you a CTO, with startup experience , do you have network, blockchain , gambling, games, ecommerce experience, do you have knowledge of building a network platform (Think Twitter, TikTok, and Whatsapp powered by live scores for football/soccer).

Are you capable of not only leading a team but teaching from the ground up a group of less experienced engineers scattered around the world? Are you willing to get your hands dirty. 

We will maintain oleolesport while building a social network and messaging platform for football. We have several exclusive fan travel sponsorship deals worth millions in revenue. These deals include marketing rights that will drive traffic to the new social network as well as sell our ticket packages. We are building a native platform utilizing Rust, were not building with shortcuts in mind we are building for long term success and owning ALL or our technology is criticle. 

We are building a brand that is synonymous with football, with 20,000 clubs 210 national teams (Where Fans Kickoff!), 

We are building a social network and a marketplace for football the marketplace (similar to WeChat) will offer brands the opportunity to sell tickets, hospitality, merchandise, gaming, gambling, and many other services. These mini-apps will sit in the cloud and will be embedded within our app. 

We are building the world's first social network for sports, all content is fan-driven with the exception of scores, fixture lists, tables, squads, and history. We are applying world-class machine learning, artificial intelligence, visual search, data storage, and client technologies to one of the largest sports with data sets of ideas in one place. We will use AI to disrupt Wikipedia’s football history category.

Top Reasons to Work with Us

• Build the biggest sports platform in the world in 100 languages
• Build a world class global technology team
• Build something completely new that will change sports forever

   

What You Will Be Doing

 Helping to develop a world-class culture from day one

• Building multiple small teams of great people, web, mobile, AI teams driven by user growth
• Social first, scaling user growth at all cost, building a viral growth mobile platform by integrating oleolesport with Facebook, Twitter, Tikand Instagram 
• Experience at building a business at scale

Qualifications

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Hands-On, Startup Leader Needed

Company: OleOle
Location: Remote (Global)
Compensation: Deferred until funding closes

About Us:
OleOle is building the world’s first social networking and messaging platform for football fans , integrating features similar to WeChat, Twitter, WhatsApp, and TikTok . Our tech stack is native, built in Rust , and we are in the early development phase after completing the prototype and wireframes.

We are seeking a hands-on, technical, and strategic CTO who has built and scaled startups . You will lead, mentor, and coach a young, global, remote engineering team operating on deferred compensation until we close funding.

Who You Are:

✅ A proven startup leader – You have 7-10+ years as a CTO and have led engineering teams at early-stage startups.
✅ A technical expert – Strong background in Rust or the ability to adapt quickly.
✅ A team coach & mentor – You can motivate and develop junior engineers .
✅ Experienced in remote teams – You have led distributed teams across multiple time zones.
✅ Willing to work for deferred compensation – Until funding closes, the team is working on a sweat equity model .
✅ Ideally has access to capital – While not required, a CTO with investor connections would be a huge plus.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead & build our Rust-native platform from the ground up.
• Mentor & develop a young engineering team working for deferred compensation.
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance of our architecture.
• Work hands-on with the codebase, setting up best practices.
• Coordinate development timelines for Phase 1 (7–8 months) and Phase 2 (9–10 months).
• Align with our vision to build the world's largest sports social platform.

Why Join Us?

Game-Changing Vision – OleOle is building the world’s first super app for sports .
Equity & Upside – Deferred now, but big rewards as funding closes.
⚡ Startup Culture – Be a founding leader in a fast-moving, high-impact environment .
Global Reach – Work with a team of top engineers worldwide .

How to Apply:

If you're a hands-on, startup-seasoned CTO who thrives in a high-risk, high-reward environment, we want to hear from you.

Additional Information

Of course it’s hard and others won’t want to do the hard stuff.

• 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

OleOleSport is located in beautiful Austin Texas, however, work from home while we fund raise a possibility, held and rapidly growing! 

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