Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack San Francisco

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); Híbrido; USD 100.000 - 300.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Unlimited AI token budget

Take what you need vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in +

Descripción de la vacante

Hercules in San Francisco is seeking a senior or staff-level full-stack software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will own features across our stack and ship impactful products for a growing developer audience.

This role demands strong fundamentals in system design, API design, and SaaS, with expertise in TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal. We value independence, ownership, and a track record of delivering customer-facing features.

Formación

• Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
• Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
• Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
• SaaS: strong experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), identity (OAuth, RBAC, SSO/SAML), 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, Redis, and Temporal
• AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding

Responsabilidades

• Build and own features across Hercules including our AI Agent, App Builder, Hosting infrastructure, SDK, Platform, and Internal AI coding harness
• Collaborate across teams to ship high-impact SaaS features
• Improve system design, scalability, and reliability of the product
• Contribute to data modeling, API design, and code quality in a monorepo
• Implement AI-powered enhancements to developer workflows
• Participate in security, reliability, and performance reviews

Conocimientos

Software fundamentals

Code and codebase quality

Product/design sense

SaaS

Our core stack

AI

Herramientas

TypeScript

React

containers

Postgres

Redis

Temporal

Descripción del empleo

What are we looking for?

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

What will you do?

You will build and own 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
• Hosting infrastructure, the backend that's required to scalably and reliably host 100s of thousands of apps
• SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media,
• Platform, our user friendly experience with enterprise-grade security and reliability
• Internal AI coding harness, the internal coding harness we have built to 100x our output

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/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
• SaaS: strong experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), identity (OAuth, RBAC, SSO/SAML), 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, Redis, and Temporal
• 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)