Manna is small on purpose: a Scripture app that leaves people calmer than it found them. Nothing is open today. When the work grows, these are the people we will look for first.
None of these is open yet. Each one describes the work as it will be, so you can tell whether it is yours.
Writers
Not open yet
Words people read slowly, early in the morning, when they are tired or grieving or glad.
The work
Write guided-study days: a reflection, a word study, three questions, a practice and a prayer.
Work from the sources: every line of Scripture verbatim, every quotation checked against its text.
Help shape the next collections, from the Gospels and the Letters to seasons like Advent.
You might love it if
You write short and true, you have led a Bible study or written devotional pieces, and you hold your theology firmly and humbly. Writers work within the historic Christian creeds, the ground every study stands on.
The paper, the ink, the photographs and the small marks that make Manna feel like a place.
The work
Illustration, lettering, photography and motion for the app, its verse cards and its widgets.
Build on what is here: paper, ink and gold, and a hundred public-domain photographs.
Make work that holds up by daylight and by lamplight, on a phone and across an iPad desk.
You might love it if
You care about craft at small sizes (a Lock Screen widget is barely wider than a thumb), and you would rather make one quiet thing well than ten loud ones.
The app itself, on iPhone and iPad, where every tap should feel calm and certain.
The work
React Native and Expo in TypeScript, with Swift where the platform asks for it: widgets and the Apple Pencil.
Make it feel native: quick, accessible with VoiceOver, at home in light and dark.
Keep it offline by default, with the whole Bible and every reader’s library on the device.
You might love it if
You have shipped React Native or native iOS, you like TypeScript, and you notice when an animation is a frame late or a button is too small for a thumb.
Most of the work happens in writing, so there is time to think before answering and no one spends the day in meetings.
Rest is part of the job
Manna has a whole study on work and rest. The people who make it should be able to live what it teaches.
Small and careful
Fewer features, finished properly. Every quotation checked, every screen tried by day and by night.
Privacy is a promise
No accounts and no tracking. Whatever we build next keeps it that way.
When a role opens
What you can count on.
The posting says what it pays and where it can be done from.
A short process: a conversation, a look at work you have already made, and, only if we need to see more, a small exercise that we pay for.
Everyone who writes hears back.
Tell us what you need in order to take part, and we will make room for it.
Introduce yourself
Write to us now.
A few lines about who you are and what you would like to make, with links to two or three things you have made. We will keep your note and write to you when a role like yours opens.
