Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Jobs in JS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; 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 v

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a staff level frontend software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will own user-facing interfaces across Hercules, including the AI Agent, App Builder, mobile experience, and marketing pages.

We value strong fundamentals, clean code, product intuition, and a beautiful UX. In-office in San Francisco, with openness to exceptional remote candidates willing to travel and work US time zones.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design.
• Clean, maintainable code in monorepos and high code quality practices.
• Track record of independently shipping features to customers.
• Beautiful, opinionated UX/UI sense.

Responsibilities

• Build and own user-facing interfaces across Hercules, including AI Agent, App Builder, Mobile app, and Marketing pages.
• Contribute to frontend architecture and development across the tech stack.
• Collaborate with product and design to deliver high-quality UI/UX at scale.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Product sense

Design sense

Frontend stack

AI awareness

Tools

TypeScript

React

Postgres

Redis

Docker

CDK

Terraform

Otel

Job description

What are we looking for?

Hercules is looking for a 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 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

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 are 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-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)