Founding Software Engineer - Italian native speaker only

About Us

We are currently an earlystage startup but we aim to become the allinone platform for corporate events like retreats and team building similar to what Booking is for private users. Unlike private users companies have distinct needs and until now nobody has created a software program that fully addresses these needs.
Here comes Always Friday: we have the expertise and determination to develop a marketplace that automates and digitalises the entire eventplanning from location scouting to seamless invoice management. Our platform will leverage a proprietary dataset in partnership with worldclass hotel chains rather than relying on scraping data from other websites like existing alternatives ambuilding providers and budgets in siloed tools and endless email chains.

Join as tech employee#1 and shape both our product and culture from day one.

Who Were Looking For

Were looking for a superstar a pragmatic and proactive software engineer with 24 years of experience in productdriven companies. You have an entrepreneurial mindset and a handson attitude: when something breaks you fix it; when somethings unclear you figure it out. You value speed iteration and learning directly from users.

If you believe in building fast and improving based on real feedback youll feel right at home here.

Tasks

• Own features endtoend. Design build test ship and iterate across the stack ( on AWS).
• Set the technical direction. Partner with Lorenzo (Cofounder & CTO) on architecture tooling and the product roadmap.
• Multiply the team. Help us hire onboard and mentor the next generation of engineers as we 3 headcount over the next 12months.
• Stay close to users. Join product calls and push sameday improvements.
• Build for resilience. Champion code quality testing observability and DevOps best practices.

Requirements

• 24 years in productdriven companies (startup experience a plus).
• Proficient with TypeScript React/ relational DBs and modern cloud infra.
• Comfortable jumping between frontend polish and backend performance.
• Pragmatic biased to action and energized by ambiguity.

Our Tech Stack

• TypeScript and
• Tailwind CSS
• PostgreSQL and Prisma
• Git
• AWS

Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Python
• Docker/K8s
• GitHub Actions
• Sentry or similar monitoring
• Playwright
• Prior foundingteam experience

Benefits

• Salary range: depending on experience.
• Stock options: lets cut to the chase: if we win you win. The stock options at current value could be worth 10 or 20 times as much in 5 years. Early employees of startups (even moderately successful ones) are now millionaires. No company can offer you such earning opportunities so quickly
• Remotefriendly tech team: Lorenzo (our CTO) is now working remotely but he will be working from our Milan office from autumn on and ideally wed love our second engineer to join him there. We believe in the value of being together and our space in the heart of Milan is made to foster deep focus. That said if youre exceptional and prefer working remotely were open to making it work.
• Startup experience: this is your chance to build and scale a wellfunded startup from the ground up. Expect fastpaced learning and real ownership.
• Career opportunities: look at the leadership teams of successful startups (even in Italy). Those who joined early now lead teams own key strategic areas or run international expansions. In five years you could be leading a department or launching our operations in new markets like the US or across Europe.
• Meaningful impact: your code will affect real people. Youll make key technical decisions that shape the product and company longterm.

Hiring Process (2weeks)

1. 30min founder chat: mutual fit & mission alignment
2. 90min realworld tech session: pair with Lorenzo on a mini feature from our codebase (no DSA/LeetCode)
3. Team coffee: casual video call with future teammates
4. Offer: written offer with transparent equity and comp breakdown

We respect your time: we schedule all steps upfront give feedback within 24hours and can move faster if you need.