Staff Software Engineer, Growth & Experimentation San Francisco

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 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 a

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a staff level growth engineer to shape the future of AI software development from our San Francisco office. You will own growth across the entire customer journey, from landing page to long term conversion, and drive signups, activation, paid conversions, retention, and expansion.

We value strong software fundamentals, code quality, experimentation, and analytics. You will work with our TS/React stack and AI-enabled products, collaborating across product and design to build

Qualifications

• Strong software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design.
• Proficient in SQL and clear/simple analytics reporting.
• Experience running hundreds of A/B tests and robust experimentation practices.
• Ability to build intuitive experiences across landing pages, onboarding, upgrade flows and engagement features.

Responsibilities

• Landing page → signup conversion: experiment to optimize signups.
• Signup → activation conversion: ensure users reach the aha moment.
• Signup → paid conversion: upsells, paywalls, time-limited discounts, and upsell strategies.
• Retention: keep customers engaged and returning to Hercules.
• Expansion & monetization: drive upgrades and increased usage.

Skills

Growth mindset

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Experimentation

Analytics

Revenue mindset

Product/design sense

AI fluency

Tools

Statsig

PostHog

Job description

What are we looking for?

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

What will you do?

You will own growth across the entire customer journey from landing page all the way through to long term conversion

• Landing page → signup conversion. Experiment with our landing pages to optimize sign up conversion

• Sign up → activation conversion: Make sure we get every user to the "aha" moment

• Sign up → Paid conversion: Convert free users into paying customers with upsells, entitlement experimentation, paywalls, time constrained discounts, and more

• Retention: Make sure customers keep building on Hercules and stay engaged

• Expansion & monetization: Continue to grow revenue from existing customers through plan upgrades, increased usage, add-ons, or conversion from monthly to annual plans

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

• Experimentation: Track record running hundreds of A/B tests on platforms like Statsig, PostHog, etc; robust experimentation best practices

• Analytics: extensive SQL skills, clear and simple reporting

• Revenue mindset: able to identify and prioritze the biggest opportunities

• Product and design sense: build intuitive experiences across landing pages, onboarding, upgrade flows, and engagement features

• Our core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, and Redis

• AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on the 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)