Founding Software Engineer
Founding Software Engineer at Nowadays — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Nowadays
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 130000–170000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
About Nowadays:
Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. For example, our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, deal with back-and-forth negotiations, and present the best options.
We’ve proudly planned events ranging from Amazon’s intimate executive dinners in New York, to Quantstamp’s product launch in Turkey, to Google’s offsite at Universal.
Within the first 6 months of launching, Nowadays has experienced exponential growth, growing to $3.4M in booked revenue from customers including Amazon, Google, and Notion.
Nowadays’ leadership team is comprised of talented MIT software engineering graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.
Mission:
Our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by automating the complexity behind events. Our vision? To become the go-to platform for organizing unforgettable events — making it easy and accessible for everyone, everywhere.
As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our tech, product, and culture — and in building the future of how people gather.
💼 What You’ll Do:
Own our full stack (React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node/Python)
Ship high-quality features quickly, grounded in real customer needs
Build and scale the AI systems powering our product
Make key technical decisions and influence overall product direction
Shape our engineering culture, tools, and roadmap from day one
🥇 What you’ll bring:
Experience building and shipping full-stack products end-to-end
Strong product intuition and a deep care for user experience
Confidence with SQL and modern web frameworks
A bias toward action—you like working fast, learning quickly, and taking initiative
Motivation to build something people actually use
✨ Bonus Points
Experience deploying AI / LLM tools in production
Strong eye for UI/UX and design quality
Zero-to-one startup experience
🥰 Why Nowadays?
Compensation & Benefits
Working Times: US (PST) Hours
Must be based in San Francisco
$130K-$170K
0.5% - 2% equity
The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
All of our employees get:
Free lunch and dinner
Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand)
Monthly fitness stipend
Health insurance
12 weeks paid parental leave
Generous PTO with required time off to recharge
High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences