Staff Software Engineer, Product

Hercules

United States

Hybrid

USD 100,000 - 300,000

Full time

24 hours ago

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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/多

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a senior or staff level product software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will lead end-to-end frontend and platform features across our AI harness, app builder, SDK, mobile app, and platform, shaping the user experience and scale.

This role emphasizes shipping high-quality code with strong UX sense and cross-team collaboration. In-office in San Francisco is preferred, with remote consideration for exceptional candidates who can align to US

Qualifications

Extensive software design and architecture experience.
Track record shipping features to customers.
Strong frontend UX/UI sensibilities and modern tooling.

Responsibilities

Build and own user-facing features across Hercules.
Contribute to AI SDK, App Builder, and platform components.
Collaborate on frontend/backend pipelines and scalability.

Skills

System design

API design

Clean code

Monorepos

Product sense

UX/UI design

SaaS features

Frontend

TypeScript

React

Containers

PostgreSQL

Redis

Tools

Docker

Drizzle ORM

Terraform

CDK

Otel

Temporal

Clickhouse

Hono

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 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?

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?

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?