Founding Technology Partner

Company DescriptionMANNA – Recipes & Cooking is building a new home for food, recipes, and culinary creators.The platform helps people turn food inspiration from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and the web into recipes they can save, organize, and actually cook. Users can build personal recipe collections, discover new ideas, create menus, and use AI-powered tools designed around cooking and recipes.MANNA is already live. Our longer-term vision is to build a social platform centered around food — connecting people, recipes, and culinary creators through what people actually want to cook, discover, and share.We are now building the founding team that will help take the existing product into its next stage.Role DescriptionWe are looking for a Founding Technology Partner / Technical Co-Founder to take meaningful ownership of MANNA’s technology and continued product development.This is not a role to build an idea or an MVP from scratch. A working mobile product and backend already exist.The role combines hands-on development with technical decision-making. You will work closely with the founder to improve the existing product, build new capabilities, make architectural and infrastructure decisions, and prepare the platform for future growth.The exact scope and level of involvement can evolve based on the right person and mutual fit.Key areas of responsibility may include:Developing and improving core product featuresTaking ownership of technical decisions and architectureImproving platform reliability, performance, and maintainabilityWorking across the mobile app, backend, APIs, and data layerIntegrating and evaluating AI-powered capabilitiesHelping define the technical roadmap as the product evolvesEstablishing strong development practices as the technical team growsCurrent TechnologyMANNA currently uses:Flutter / DartSupabase / PostgreSQLTypeScript / Deno Edge FunctionsAPIs and third-party integrationsGoogle Gemini and other AI-powered servicesAndroid and iOSExperience with the exact stack is useful, but not required. Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to work effectively with an existing codebase are more important.QualificationsWe are looking for someone with:Strong hands-on software development experienceSolid problem-solving and technical judgmentExperience building and maintaining production softwareAbility to work across product, architecture, and implementationExperience with mobile, backend, web, or full-stack developmentFamiliarity with APIs, databases, cloud services, and modern software architectureAbility to understand an existing codebase and improve it pragmaticallyStrong communication and ability to work closely with non-technical stakeholdersComfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and incomplete informationA high level of ownership and interest in building a company, not only delivering assigned development tasksExperience with consumer applications, AI integrations, social products, recommendation systems, or early-stage startups is an advantage, but not required.Stage & CompensationThis is an early-stage founding-team opportunity.There is currently no salary attached to the role. The position is equity-based, with meaningful equity and vesting structured according to the level of responsibility, commitment, and long-term involvement.