Staff Software Engineer, Product

Hercules; 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–o

Best work of your career

Job summary

Hercules in San Francisco is seeking a senior or staff product software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will own user-facing features across our stack, from the AI Agent to the SDK, App Builder, mobile app, and enterprise Platform.

We value deep system design, clean code in monorepos, strong product sense, UX excellence, and SaaS know-how including billing, analytics, and notifications.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable systems and APIs.
• Proven track record shipping features to customers.
• Strong UX/UI sensibilities with frontend innovations.
• Experience with SaaS billing, analytics, and large user bases.

Responsibilities

• Build and own user-facing features across Hercules including AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, Mobile app and Platform components.
• Write clean, maintainable code and work effectively in monorepos.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship features that customers love.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Code quality

Product sense

Design sense

SaaS features

Core stack familiarity

AI fluency

Job description

What are we looking for?

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

What will you do?

You will build and own user-facing 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
• SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media,
• Mobile app, our PWA-based mobile building experience
• Platform, our user friendly experience with enterprise-grade security and reliability

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 sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations
• SaaS: general experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), 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, and Redis,
• 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)