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 and Ivy League graduates as well as prestigious backgrounds including Google, Meta, Amazon, Doordash, and McKinsey.
Our Mission At Nowadays, our mission is to simplify the process of bringing people together by leveraging cutting-edge AI to automate the complexities of event planning. Our vision is to become the go-to platform for organizing events, making memorable experiences accessible and easy to plan for everyone, everywhere.
What You'll Do As a Software Engineer Intern, you will work on the foundational platforms and systems—both frontend and backend—that enable us to build a high-quality product at scale.
- Build our core technical foundations, including our frontend architecture and backend APIs.
- Optimize for performance and reliability across the full stack, from databases to the frontend.
- Contribute to our core AI engine, helping develop our automation models.
- Improve engineering tooling and developer experience to increase team velocity.
- Enable Product Engineers by building the robust components and APIs they need.
What You'll Bring We're looking for passionate and curious students who are excited to learn, build, and make an impact.
- You are a current student or new grad pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field with a graduation date of Spring 2026 or earlier.
- You have experience building projects with technologies like React, Next.js, Node.js, or Python (class or personal projects are great!).
- You have foundational knowledge of SQL databases.
- You take pride in your work and are motivated to learn and grow.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- You are a strong teammate who enjoys solving problems together.
Bonus Points
- Interest in or experience with AI/ML models.
- Previous internship or project experience in a startup environment.
- A good eye for UI/UX design.
- You bring unique skills to the table, whether it's design, writing, or community building.
Why You'll Love It This isn't a typical internship—you'll ship production code and solve real engineering challenges from day one.
Real Impact, Fast Ship code to production within your first week and see its immediate impact on major clients like Google and Amazon.
Build Your Network Build your professional network through our team's connections to big tech and high-growth startups like Google, Meta, Notion, DoorDash, etc.
A Fun, Tight-Knit Team Join a team that feels like working with friends. We value having fun together, whether it's cooking meals for each other or going flying trapeze!
Position Details Timeline The internship runs during the Fall (late Aug/early Sep to mid/late Dec), with an opportunity to extend.
Full-Time Opportunity This internship has the potential to convert to a full-time offer upon graduation.
Compensation & Housing We offer a competitive package that includes a generous housing stipend or company-covered housing, plus commuter benefits.
Commitment This is a full-time (at least 40 hours/week), fully in-person role at our San Francisco office.
Great Perks Enjoy free lunch and dinner, quarterly company offsites (we recently went to the White Lotus S3 hotel in Thailand!), and exclusive industry access to top-tier hotels and venues.
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Work at office, Immediate start,