Senior Software Engineer

About Us We’re builders, doers, and difference-makers, driven by a shared mission to reshape the tours, activities, and experiences industry. Alongside our sister brands, Checkfront and Regiondo, we power more than 20,000 businesses and support over $10B in bookings globally. Our technology helps operators thrive while delivering unforgettable moments to travelers around the world. We work in an industry built on adventure, energy, and human connection, and that same spirit fuels how we show up every day. Spanning North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, our teams are united by bold goals, a bias for action, and an unwavering commitment to delivering for our customers. Our success starts with people. Our teams are the engine behind everything we create. We value self-starters who take ownership, embrace challenges, and raise the bar, for themselves and those around them. We believe in creating space to grow, take risks, and make a real impact, and we celebrate those who lead with curiosity, grit, and drive. If you’re passionate about performance, hungry to learn, and ready to help shape the future of travel—this is your kind of place. Let’s build, grow, and win together. We’re hiring a high-level Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join Manifest, a new product being built in a high-autonomy, fast-moving environment. The team operates with a lean process and a high degree of ownership. Engineers are expected to work effectively in ambiguity, collaborate directly with product and design partners, clarify requirements before writing code, and ship pragmatic, high-quality solutions with minimal oversight. For this role, we are looking for a product-centric full-stack engineer with a strong front-end focus. You should be highly comfortable building polished, maintainable user experiences in React, and ideally have a strong eye for design, UX quality, and front-end architecture. The team has established a solid foundation of front-end patterns, design principles, and product conventions. As our product matures, we need an engineer who can help carry that work forward: improving UI polish, strengthening front-end practices, and helping the team make thoughtful product and design decisions without relying on heavy process or dedicated design support. This role is for an engineer who enjoys startup-mode execution: turning incomplete ideas into sensible plans, making good product and technical tradeoffs, and moving work forward with urgency and sound judgment. We are open to hiring at either the Senior or Staff level depending on experience, scope, and demonstrated impact. What You’ll Do Build polished, maintainable, user-centered product experiences using React and modern front-end patterns Help evolve the front-end architecture, component patterns, and UI conventions of the product Take loosely defined product ideas and turn them into clear, executable technical plans Ask sharp questions to clarify scope, constraints, edge cases, UX expectations, and customer impact Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, maintainability, product value, and UI polish Collaborate closely with engineers, product partners, and other stakeholders to move work forward Use modern development tools, including AI coding assistants, as a force multiplier while maintaining strong engineering judgment Contribute to a high-quality engineering culture through thoughtful code review, direct communication, and a bias toward action At the Staff level, raise the effectiveness of the wider team through technical leadership, stronger front-end patterns, better execution standards, and improved decision-making ​​​​ What We’re Looking For You may be a fit for this role if you: Have significant experience as a senior or staff-level software engineer on product-focused teams Are highly skilled with React, TypeScript, and modern front-end development Have strong product judgment and care deeply about user experience, interface quality, and the details that make software feel polished Can work effectively in environments where requirements are not always fully specified up front Know how to create clarity rather than waiting for it Can break down ambiguous problems into sensible increments and ship value quickly Write clean, maintainable code and care about quality, testing, and rollout risk Communicate directly and effectively, especially when surfacing tradeoffs, risks, or uncertainty Use AI coding tools thoughtfully and effectively, without outsourcing your judgment to them Thrive in a demanding environment that expects autonomy, initiative, and ownership Front-end and Design Expectations You should be comfortable reasoning about: React application structure and component design State management and frontend data flow UI consistency, reusable patterns, and design systems Accessibility, responsiveness, and interaction details Performance and maintainability in a growing product UI Translating product intent into a consistent, polished user expe