Founding Product 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: 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 Product 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:

• Build full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Node/Python, with a strong emphasis on design and user experience
• Work directly with large enterprise customers to understand their needs and deliver custom solutions
• Own the end-to-end product development lifecycle—from customer conversations to production
• Partner closely with sales and operations to prioritize high-impact customer requests
• Make key product and technical decisions that shape our platform for enterprise use cases
• Ship quickly and iterate based on real customer feedback
• Help define our product culture and processes from day one

🥇 What you’ll bring:

• Experience building and shipping full-stack products with excellent design and UX
• Strong product intuition and the ability to turn customer needs into elegant solutions
• Comfort working directly with customers and gathering requirements
• A strong eye for design and the ability to build polished, beautiful interfaces
• Confidence with modern web frameworks and SQL
• A bias toward action—you like moving fast, taking ownership, and shipping
• Excitement about shaping the product and working closely with enterprise customers

✨ Bonus Points

• Experience building custom features for enterprise customers
• Strong design skills or close collaboration with designers
• Background in product management or customer-facing engineering roles
• Zero-to-one startup experience
• Experience with B2B SaaS platforms

🥰 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