Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems

Job Title

Founding Backend Architect / Principal Rust Engineer

About the Role

OleOle is building a global, real-time social and messaging platform for sports fans — from the ground up, natively in Rust.

This is not a feature role and not a task-driven role.

We are looking for a senior backend engineer who has owned systems before and is comfortable making foundational architectural decisions that will not be rewritten later.

You will design and evolve the backend architecture powering public conversations, real-time messaging, video, commerce, and token-based incentives for millions of users worldwide.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Designing and owning core backend architecture in Rust (async-first)
• Defining service boundaries, data ownership, and evolution strategy
• Designing scalable APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) for mobile and web clients
• Modeling and opera...