Frontend Engineer

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Take what you need vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in the office

Opportunity to do the best work of your career

Job summary

A leading AI software company in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to develop user-facing interfaces for their AI products. You will work with cutting-edge technologies like TypeScript and React, contributing to applications like the AI Agent and App Builder. Ideal candidates should have a deep understanding of system design and user experience design principles. The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $100k to $250k, dependent on experience and location.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design.
• Ability to write clean and maintainable code while managing monorepos.
• Track record of independently shipping features to customers.
• Excellent UX/UI design skills using the latest frontend technologies.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React; familiar with containers, Postgres, and Redis.

Responsibilities

• Build and own user-facing interfaces for various applications.
• Develop features for the AI Agent, App Builder, and Marketing pages.
• Collaborate within the team to improve product offerings.

Skills

System design

Architecture

Data modeling

API design

Clean code

Product sense

UX/UI design

TypeScript

React

AI coding

Tools

Docker

Postgres

Redis

Terraform

Cloudflare

OpenAI

Job description

What are we looking for?

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

What will you do?

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

• 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

What skills do we expect you to have?

We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:

• 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 sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations

• Our core 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

What’s Hercules’ stack?

• 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

What are Hercules’ operating principles?

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:

1. We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Is Hercules in-office or remote?

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 is willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules’ 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

What’s the compensation?

$100k-$250k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)