Founding Software Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$130–170K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Nowadays seeks a Founding Software Engineer to shape its AI‑driven event planning platform, own the full‑stack, build and scale AI systems, make key technical decisions, and help define engineering culture, tools, and roadmap from day one.
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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
How this job compares
Set against the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$130–170K/yr
- California median$165–246K/yr7,794 salary ranges
- US median$135–219K/yr33,393 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $150K, is 27% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,715 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 42,014 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 34,412 postings).
- Education
- 13,315 of the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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