Founding 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

At Nowadays, our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by leveraging cutting-edge AI to automate the complexities of event planning. Our vision is to become the go-to platform for organizing events, making memorable experiences accessible and easy to plan for everyone, everywhere.

As a founding engineer, you'll be instrumental in driving technological innovations that make this mission a reality, transforming the event planning landscape and creating seamless experiences for our clients.

💼 What You’ll Do

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and expand our Next.js and Supabase applications
• Grow and refine our database of 400K venues and vendors
• Innovate and automate our processes, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI in event planning
• Manage full-stack development and ensure fast, reliable product shipping
• Continuously iterate on our AI models to enhance negotiation, contracting, and payment processes

🥇 What You’ll Bring

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in Full-Stack (React, TypeScript, Python)
• Confidence in shipping end-to-end products
• Strong bias for action and will to succeed; highly resourceful
• Passion for using AI to innovate the event planning industry and bring people together
• Adaptability and comfort in navigating ambiguity, shifting directives, and rapidly evolving market conditions

🥰 Why Nowadays?

Compensation & Benefits

• Working Times: US (PST) Hours
• Must be based in San Francisco
• $120K-$180K
• 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:

• Commuter benefits
• Free office lunch
• Health & dental coverage
• Opportunity to join in cutting-edge technology in the event planning space, forever revolutionizing the way people meet