Founding Software Engineer

About Nowadays:

We're building the future of in-person connection, from an intimate exec offsite to a 1,000-person company kickoff in Cancún.

Think about the best work trip you've ever been on. The dinner where your team finally clicked. The offsite where a coworker became a friend. Those moments don't happen over Zoom, and behind every one of them is someone juggling a hundred details: the venue, the flights, the hotel rooms, who's bringing a +1, who's vegetarian, who needs a ride from the airport.

Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform that plans corporate events end to end, from picking the venue to the last airport pickup, so the person organizing gets to enjoy the event too. We've brought together teams at Fortune 500s like Google, Airbnb, and BlackRock, and we're just getting started.

Our mission is simple: we love bringing people together, and we want to make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments in real life.

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