What the role involves
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
About Nowadays
Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate meetings and events. Our AI doesn't just assist planners – it does the work. It emails and calls venues, negotiates rates in 22 languages, parses 50-page hotel proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and surfaces unmanaged meeting spend across your entire org. We work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic company kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify. Unlike legacy platforms like Cvent that bolted AI onto decades-old infrastructure, Nowadays was built from the ground up for the AI era.
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