Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Hercules; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Flexible vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks int

Career growth

Job summary

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

We expect strength in software fundamentals, clean code, and a strong sense for UX/UI, with core stack including TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and Docker. We value ambitious, product-minded engineers who can ship quickly and with care.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software design and API design.
• Ability to ship features independently with quality code.
• Track record of delivering customer-facing improvements.
• Strong UI/UX sensibility and design judgment.
• Proficiency in TS/React and modern frontend tooling.
• Experience with AI-enabled development workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and own user-facing interfaces across Hercules.
• Develop features for AI Agent, App Builder, and mobile experiences.
• Contribute to marketing pages and product docs.
• Collaborate across teams to ship high-quality experiences.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Product sense

Design sense

Monorepos

Frontend stack TS/React

AI coding

Tools

TypeScript

React

AI SDK

Postgres

Redis

Clickhouse

Tailwind

CDK/Terraform

Docker

Otel

Hono

Drizzle ORM

Temporal

Cloudflare

AWS

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 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
• Cloulds: 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:

• 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.

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)

Compensation Range: $100K - $300K