Staff Software Engineer, Billing and Monetization

About the role

Hercules is looking for a Staff Billing and Monetization engineer to build and own our billing, payments, and monetization infrastructure. The founding team works in‑office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush) with a strong preference for in‑office work; remote is possible for exceptional candidates who can work US time zones and travel to the office regularly.

Responsibilities

• Own everything billing and monetization: plans, subscriptions, entitlements, prorations, credits, and one‑time charges
• Usage‑based billing: AI credits, Cloud credits, usage metering, and overage charges
• Payments and providers: integrations with Stripe, Adyen, PayPal and other popular payment providers; support many payment methods and currencies
• Hercules Commerce: billing and payment capabilities customers can use inside their apps to transact with their customers (similar to Stripe Connect)
• Latency, reliability, and scale: fast, resilient infrastructure with robust webhook processing, retries, and reconciliation as usage and transaction volumes grow

Qualifications

• We ship: bias for action, iterate quickly, correct mistakes fast
• We strive for excellence: doing things well is in our DNA
• We have good taste: get the details right, outputs exceptionally simple and self‑serve
• We’re proud of our work
• We are hungry: willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve outcomes
• We are willing to operate at any level to get things done

Skills

• Billing and payments: extensive experience with providers like Stripe, Adyen, etc., subscriptions, usage‑based billing, regulation
• Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, API design
• Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code; work effectively in monorepos
• Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
• Core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, Temporal
• AI: ability to 10x workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
• Hercules’ technologies: TypeScript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal; clouds: Cloudflare, AWS; AI models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

Benefits

• Unlimited AI token budget
• Take what you need vacation policy
• Healthcare, vision, and dental
• Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
• We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

Pay

$100k‑$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location); Compensation Range: $100K - $300K