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Brief #68985Updated 22 AUG 2026SAN FRANCISCO, CAYc
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Founding Software Engineer

Nowadays is hiring a Founding Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA. Full brief — comp band, interview process, and hiring team — available to Employbl members.

Location
San Francisco, CA
Company size
5–20
Posted
1w ago
Via
Yc
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Founding Software Engineer · Nowadays

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Job title
Founding Software Engineer
Job location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job description
### **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
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Where this role is based

San Francisco, CA

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Nowadays headquarters

Company size

520 employees

Founded

2020

Total raised

$10,500,000

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