Founding Software Engineer

Founding Engineer

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Base pay range

$130,000.00/yr - $170,000.00/yr

About Nowadays

Nowadays is the first AI platform for planning corporate events. Our AI can contact venues by email and phone to get availability, handle negotiations, and present the best options. We’ve helped plan events for Amazon, Google, Notion, and others. Since launching, we’ve grown to $3.4M in booked revenue.

Mission

Our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by automating the complexity behind events. We aim to become the go‑to platform for organising unforgettable events, making it easy and accessible for everyone, everywhere.

What You’ll Do

• Own and expand our Next.js and Supabase apps
• Grow and refine our 400K+ venue and vendor database
• Build systems that automate sourcing, contracting, negotiation, and payments with AI
• Manage full‑stack development and ship end‑to‑end features—fast
• Continuously experiment and iterate on AI models and automation flows

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in full‑stack development (React, TypeScript, Python)
• Confidence in shipping end‑to‑end products quickly and independently
• A strong bias for action and a resourceful, do‑what‑it‑takes mindset
• Passion for using AI to transform event planning and help people connect meaningfully
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change—you adapt fast and stay focused
• Willingness to dive into the manual parts of event planning to deeply understand problems and build better tools

Compensation & Benefits

• US (PST) hours
• Must be based in San Francisco
• Base salary: $130K–$170K
• Equity: 0.5%–2%

The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

All of Our Employees Get

• Commuter benefits
• San Francisco office in SoMa
• Quarterly company offsites
• Free office lunch & dinner
• Health & dental coverage
• Opportunity to join cutting‑edge technology in the event planning space
• Exclusive invites to tour hotel partners and free trips to destinations such as Cancun, Cabo, the Dominican Republic, and more!

Seniority Level

Entry level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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