Staff Software Engineer, Product

About the role

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level product software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development

Responsibilities

• You will build and own user-facing features across Hercules including our 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
• SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media
• Mobile app, our PWA-based mobile building experience
• Platform, our user friendly experience with enterprise-grade security and reliability

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 sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations
• SaaS: general experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), product analytics (A/B testing, feature flags), and other popular SaaS features (like i18n, notifications) for large user bases
• Our core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, and Redis
• AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
• Hercules’ stack: 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

Schedule

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates who are willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly.