Forward-Deployed Engineer
Nowadays
About the role
☀️ About Nowadays:
We're building the future of in-person connection, from an intimate exec offsite to a 1,000-person company kickoff in Cancún.
Think about the best work trip you've ever been on. The dinner where your team finally clicked. The offsite where a coworker became a friend. Those moments don't happen over Zoom, and behind every one of them is someone juggling a hundred details: the venue, the flights, the hotel rooms, who's bringing a +1, who's vegetarian, who needs a ride from the airport.
Nowadays is the first AI-powered platform that plans corporate events end to end, from picking the venue to the last airport pickup, so the person organizing gets to enjoy the event too. We've brought together teams at Fortune 500s like Google, Airbnb, and BlackRock, and we're just getting started.
Our mission is simple: we love bringing people together, and we want to make it easier for teams to create meaningful moments in real life.
👥 Who We Are:
We're a sister-founded team based in San Francisco. We move fast, care deeply, and love bringing people together (whether it's a strategic offsite or a Friendsgiving in our Nowadays home).
We believe the best teams:
Take ownership
Keep things scrappy
Celebrate wins (big and small)
Genuinely enjoy working (+ hanging out) together
Some of our favorite team excursions so far: flying trapeze, steak-offs at home, hauling a Christmas tree up to the office, hitting the spa after a big launch, and racing an Ironman Relay.
💼 What You'll Do:
Be half builder, half forward-deployed: own product engineering while working directly with our largest enterprise customers
Meet customers face to face through on-site visits, kickoffs and demos, and help them get real value from the product after launch
Sit with customers to scope what they need, then turn it into shipped product, so their feedback goes straight into the roadmap
Lead enterprise engineering: integrations, security and SSO requests, reliability, and custom workflows for large accounts
Build and harden the AI agents that email and call venues, negotiate, and present options, and make them work reliably inside big companies' processes
Own the overarching architecture: think about how everything flows through the product, designed from the customer's perspective
Build across the full stack (React/TypeScript, Next.js, Node/Python, SQL)
🥇 What We're Looking For:
3+ years shipping full-stack products end to end, ideally at an early-stage startup or as a founding engineer
Experience in forward-deployed, solutions or other customer-facing engineering, ideally with enterprise or B2B SaaS customers
You genuinely enjoy talking to customers and are comfortable leading a client call or an on-site meeting
You can explain technical tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
You've shipped LLM or AI features to production
Strong product judgment: you can take an ambiguous customer problem all the way to a shipped solution
You like moving fast, taking ownership, and are excited to travel to customers
✨ Bonus Points:
You've founded something, or were an early engineer at a company selling to enterprises
Experience with enterprise integrations, security reviews or procurement, or onboarding large accounts
Experience with voice or email agents, RAG, or workflow automation
Background in events, travel, hospitality or marketplaces
🥰 Why Nowadays?
Compensation & Benefits
In-person in San Francisco, with travel to customer sites
$130K - $170K
0.5% - 1.5% equity
The amount listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Interview Process
15-minute intro call → take-home assignment → 1-hour technical deep dive → onsite
All of our employees get:
Free lunch and dinner
Quarterly team offsites (yes, we went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand), and exclusive access to top venues and events
Monthly fitness stipend
Health insurance
12 weeks paid parental leave
Generous PTO
High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders
Access to top venues, events, and travel experiences
Responsibilities
- Own product engineering while working directly with enterprise customers.
- Meet customers onsite for visits, kickoffs, and demos, and help them get value from the product.
- Scope customer needs and turn feedback into shipped product and roadmap improvements.
- Lead enterprise engineering across integrations, security, SSO, reliability, and custom workflows.
- Build and harden AI agents for venue outreach, negotiation, and recommendations.
- Own product architecture and build across the full stack.
Qualifications
- 3+ years shipping full-stack products end to end, ideally at an early-stage startup.
- Experience in customer-facing engineering, solutions, or forward-deployed roles, preferably with enterprise or B2B SaaS customers.
- Enjoy customer conversations and feel comfortable leading client calls and onsite meetings.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Have shipped LLM or AI features to production.
- Demonstrate strong product judgment and ownership in solving ambiguous customer problems.
- Be willing to travel to customers.
Benefits
- 0.5%–1.5% equity
- Free lunch and dinner
- Quarterly team offsites and access to venues and events
- Monthly fitness stipend
- Health insurance
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Generous PTO
- High ownership, autonomy, and direct access to founders