As the first engineering hire at Manifest Market, you will work directly with the founders to build a consumer-facing platform for prediction markets from scratch. You will own the product lifecycle—from interaction design to backend implementation—shaping the core experience, architecture, and engineering culture of a zero-to-one startup.
Founding Engineer at Manifest Market
Manifest Market is looking for its first Founding Engineer to revolutionize how the world interacts with prediction markets. Working directly with the CEO and CTO, you will own the entire product lifecycle—from Figma designs to FastAPI implementation—to build a consumer platform that makes complex data as simple as checking the weather. If you're a high-agency builder who cares about polished interfaces and real-time data, this zero-to-one role offers significant equity and the chance to shape a new category of news and financial discovery.
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Location
Remote
Compensation
up to $100k + Equity
Company
Manifest Market
Role overview
Manifest is a VC backed startup building the information layer for how consumers and businesses track and forecast the future. Integrating prediction markets alongside news, data feeds, and other real time sources.
What you will do
- Design and build polished consumer features using Python (FastAPI), React, and Next.js, including personalized feeds and real-time market discovery.
- Shape the end-to-end user experience by refining interaction patterns, lightweight design systems, and responsive interfaces for mobile and desktop.
- Develop scalable data pipelines for ingesting and normalizing real-time market news and community data using streaming technologies like Kafka.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping polished, consumer-facing products with a strong focus on interaction design and visual hierarchy.
- Expertise across the full stack, particularly with Python/FastAPI backends and modern TypeScript/React/Next.js frontend development.
- Comfortable in an AI-native development workflow, using agents to accelerate speed while maintaining responsibility for architecture and security.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join as the first engineer with significant influence over product direction, core architecture, and the engineering culture from day one.
- Tackle a complex data problem by turning fragmented financial, news, and social information into an approachable consumer interface.
- Work directly with experienced founders Roland Briere and Sebastien Conejo in a high-agency, hands-on, zero-to-one environment.
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