Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
About the role
Hercules is looking for a staff level frontend software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. The founding team works in‑office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush) with a strong preference for in‑office work, though remote is possible for exceptional candidates who can work in US time zones and travel to the office regularly. Hercules’ operating principles guide decision‑making: we ship fast and iterate, strive for excellence, have good taste, deliver simple self‑serve outputs, are proud of our work, are hungry and willing to work hard, and operate at any level to get things done. The tech stack includes 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.
Responsibilities
- Build and own user‑facing interfaces and experiences across Hercules, including the AI Agent (the AI harness that enables anyone to build powerful full‑stack applications)
- App Builder – the interface that makes it ridiculously easy to build, preview, and deploy apps
- Mobile app – our PWA‑based mobile building experience
- Marketing pages – public display pages for products, features, and docs
Skills
- Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code; work effectively in monorepos
- Product sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
- Design sense: beautiful, opinionated UX/UI sense
- Core frontend stack: TypeScript, React (and ideally some containers, Postgres, and Redis experience)
- AI: able to truly 10× your workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
Benefits
- Unlimited AI token budget
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in the office
- 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