Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
Location: Hybrid (San Francisco, California, United States) | Employment Type: Full Time
About the role
Hercules is looking for a staff level frontend software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development You will build and own user-facing interfaces and experiences across Hercules including our AI Agent, the AI harness that enables anyone to build powerful full-stack applications Hercules’ Operating Principles Guide How We Make Decisions Every Day. We Take Them Very Seriously. Most Of The Principles Can Be Learned On The Job, However, We Do Specifically Filter For The Following Principles In Our Hiring Process We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers. We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work. We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.
Responsibilities
- 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, our 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
- Our core frontend stack: TypeScript, React, (and ideally some containers, Postgres, and Redis experience)
- AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
- 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
Pay
USD 100,000 - 300,000 per annum
Schedule
Full Time