Nowadays

AI co-pilot for corporate retreat and event planning

Founding Engineer

$110K - $170K0.50% - 2.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Node.js, Python, React, TypeScript
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Anna Sun
Anna Sun
Founder

About the role

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 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 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 the problems and build better tools

🥰 Why Nowadays?

Compensation & Benefits

  • Working Times: US (PST) Hours
  • Must be based in San Francisco
  • $110K-$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:

  • Commuter benefits
  • San Francisco office in SoMa
  • Quarterly company offsites (we’ve previously gone to the White Lotus Season 3 hotel in Thailand!)
  • Free office lunch & dinner
  • Health & dental coverage
  • Opportunity to join in cutting-edge technology in the event planning space, forever shifting the way people meet
  • Exclusive invites to tour hotel partners — our founding team has already gone on free trips to Cancun, Cabo, the Dominican Republic, and more!

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 from $0 to $2M 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.

Nowadays
Founded:2023
Batch:S23
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Anna Sun
Anna Sun
Founder
Amy Yan
Amy Yan
Founder