Experienced Startup CTO possible co-founder role, hands on Rust, startup experience a must have

Who We Are Travoom is currently paused as we focus entirely on building OleOle — a football-focused social network, messaging platform, and sports super app designed for the world’s biggest sport. At the same time, oleolesport.com continues to operate as our curated football travel and hospitality marketplace, offering premium fan experiences around the biggest matches and tournaments in the world. Both platforms are strategically connected: • OleOle is the fan engagement, social, messaging, and content platform • oleolesport.com is the commerce and travel experiences platform Together, they are designed to create a complete football ecosystem for fans globally. What We’re Building OleOle is building a next-generation football platform combining: • Social networking and microblogging • Messaging and mobile calls • TikTok-style short-form video • Live scores and match experiences • AI-powered football history and statistics • Real-time global fan engagement We believe football deserves its own dedicated platform — not a small section buried inside general-purpose social networks. Football is the world’s biggest sport with more than 3 billion fans globally, yet no company has successfully built a true digital home for football supporters. OleOle is designed to become that platform. Why It Matters Football fandom is global, emotional, tribal, and active every day of the year. Yet today, the fan experience remains fragmented across disconnected social platforms, messaging apps, score apps, news sites, ticketing sites, and travel providers. Fans move constantly between products that were never built specifically for football culture or football communities. We believe supporters are looking for a place to truly “kick off” — a platform designed around how football fans actually communicate, follow matches, consume content, travel, and engage with their clubs and national teams. Why We’re Different oleolesport.com removes the complexity from planning football travel experiences by combining curated ticketing, hospitality, lodging, and travel experiences into one streamlined platform. OleOle extends that vision much further — creating a football-first platform built specifically around fan identity, conversation, live interaction, creator content, and global football culture. This is not another generic sports app. We are building a dedicated football ecosystem that combines social networking, messaging, content, live experiences, and commerce into a single connected platform. OleOle – Where Fans Kick Off Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Founding Technical Leadership Role • Rust • Real-Time Systems • Social • AI • Payments Please read the full job description before applying. We are not looking for a traditional corporate CTO. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who still builds, ships, reviews architecture, and understands modern product engineering at scale. This role is for someone who combines strong engineering judgment with startup execution ability — someone comfortable moving between backend architecture, real-time systems, infrastructure, product strategy, and technical leadership. About the Role OleOle is building a football-focused social network and super app combining: • Real-time social feeds and microblogging • Messaging and mobile communication • TikTok-style short-form video • Live scores and sports engagement • AI-powered translation and football history • Rewards, payments, and future crypto infrastructure This role may evolve into a co-founder-level position for the right person. You will define the long-term technical architecture of the company while also helping build and ship the platform alongside the engineering team. We are not looking for a CTO who has spent the last 20 years only managing meetings, vendors, and process. We are looking for someone who still codes, still understands systems deeply, and still enjoys building. What We’re Looking For A product-first, systems-oriented technical leader who understands: • Real-time social feeds and recommendation systems • Messaging and event-driven infrastructure • High-performance backend architecture • Frontend/backend integration for modern consumer products • Payments, wallet infrastructure, or financial systems • AI infrastructure and data-driven products • Scalability, reliability, and operational discipline You do not need to be an expert in every area above. However, you should have strong experience across multiple domains and the ability to make pragmatic technical decisions across a highly ambitious product ecosystem. Key Responsibilities • Define and lead the long-term technical architecture of the platform • Lead backend architecture and infrastructure strategy using Rust-based systems • Help build scalable systems supporting feeds, messaging, live updates, video, and data infrastructure • Oversee engineering direction across backend, frontend, infrastructure, and product systems • Partner closely with leadership on product and company strategy • Establish engineering culture, hiring standards, and technical execution processes • Work directly with engineers on architecture reviews, tradeoffs, and implementation decisions • Help design future financial infrastructure including rewards, wallets, payments, and crypto-related systems • Support AI-powered systems including translation, recommendation, search, and football history infrastructure • Ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and security across all systems Technical Areas Involved • Rust backend infrastructure • Real-time systems and asynchronous architecture • APIs, event-driven systems, and distributed services • Messaging and feed infrastructure • Video and media systems • AI and data infrastructure • Payment and wallet systems • SSR and SEO-focused architecture • High-scale consumer product engineering What Makes Someon