Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Vacation policy: Take what you need

Healthcare, vision, dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a staff level frontend software engineer to shape the future of AI software development in San Francisco. You will build and own user-facing interfaces across our AI Agent, App Builder, Mobile app, and marketing pages.

Expect to demonstrate strong software fundamentals, a track record of shipping features, and a keen design sense while working in a TS/React stack with exposure to containers, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design.
• Clean, maintainable code with experience working in monorepos.
• Track record of independently shipping features to customers.
• Beautiful, opinionated UX/UI sense.
• Proficiency in our core frontend stack: TypeScript and React, plus exposure to containers, Postgres, and Redis.
• Ability to leverage AI to significantly improve developer workflow.

Responsibilities

• Build and own user-facing interfaces and experiences across Hercules.
• Own AI Agent, App Builder UI, Mobile app, and Marketing pages.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Product sense

Design sense

Frontend stack

AI awareness

Tools

TypeScript

React

Postgres

Redis

Docker

Terraform/CDK

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)