Founding Product Engineer

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 Product 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:

• Build full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Node/Python, with a strong emphasis on design and user experience
• Work directly with large enterprise customers to understand their needs and deliver custom solutions
• Own the end-to-end product development lifecycle—from customer conversations to production
• Partner closely with sales and operations to prioritize high-impact customer requests
• Make key product and technical decisions that shape our platform for enterprise use cases
• Ship quickly and iterate based on real customer feedback
• Help define our product culture and processes from day one

🥇 What you’ll bring:

• Experience building and shipping full-stack products with excellent design and UX
• Strong product intuition and the ability to turn customer needs into elegant solutions
• Comfort working directly with customers and gathering requirements
• A strong eye for design and the ability to build polished, beautiful interfaces
• Confidence with modern web frameworks and SQL
• A bias toward action—you like moving fast, taking ownership, and shipping
• Excitement about shaping the product and working closely with enterprise customers

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience building custom features for enterprise customers
• Strong design skills or close collaboration with designers
• Background in product management or customer-facing engineering roles
• Zero-to-one startup experience
• Experience with B2B SaaS platforms

• 🥰 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