About Manifest Global
Manifest Global is building the infrastructure for global human capital mobility - connecting students, schools, universities, and employers across 50+ countries. Our portfolio spans Cialfo (AI-powered college counseling, 2,000+ schools), BridgeU (university guidance for international schools globally), Kaaiser (trusted study abroad counseling across India and Southeast Asia), and Explore (AI-powered university outreach, 1,000+ university partners). Together, we move talent across borders at scale. $80M raised. Still early.
About This Role
Most backend roles ask you to ship endpoints and migrations. This one asks you to ship those and extend the platform that lets the rest of the engineering team - and the AI agents working alongside them - ship them too. That platform already exists. Shared conventions, the skills library, safe contribution zones, spec-to-endpoint workflows, AI-agent infrastructure powering Saige and Explore - all live, all in production, all being used today. You'll own its next chapter: deepening it, scaling it,
and raising the ceiling on what each engineer can do without re-deriving the same patterns.
If the most compelling question in your career right now is "how do I build leverage for a team, not just output for myself?" - keep reading.
What will you own
You own the backend - not just the code you write, but the system that lets everyone around you contribute to it. That means shipping production Rails services, designing APIs other teams build against, and owning the data layer end to end. And it means extending the workflows, conventions, and guardrails that let QEs generate test scaffolds independently, PMs and analysts ship config and feature-flag changes safely, and AI agents operate inside the codebase reliably.
The measure of success here is not your personal output. It is how much the team around you can do because of what you built.
Concretely, that looks like:
- Shared AI conventions that keep tooling
📌 Senior Backend Platform Engineer, AI Enablement (Delhi)
🏢 Cialfo
📍 Delhi