Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Hercules hercules.app Open

Hybrid San Francisco Full-time Senior Frontend Engineering

At a glance

Senior Frontend Engineering role at Hercules. San Francisco · full-time · $100,000–$300,000 base.

SalaryStated by Hercules

$100,000 – $300,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

This role, from HerculesOur estimate for the market: $200,000–$249,500Median $213,500

Worked out from 21 postings that stated pay, median $213,500. Last updated Oct 30, 2026.

RoleFrontend Engineering

SenioritySenior

LocationSan Francisco

WorkplaceHybrid

EmploymentFull-time

Base pay$100,000–$300,000

PostedOct 4, 2026

Role brief

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What you'll do

Build and maintain interfaces for the AI Agent, App Builder, mobile app and marketing pages
Shape the App Builder experience for creating, previewing and deploying applications
Create user experiences across Hercules products, including its AI-powered development tools

What you bring

Strong grounding in system design, architecture, data modeling and API design
You write maintainable code and can work effectively in monorepos
A record of independently delivering many customer-facing features
Strong visual judgment and the ability to create clear, polished interfaces
You work fluently with TypeScript and React, and use AI coding tools to accelerate your work

Who this fits

This staff-level role suits a senior frontend engineer who can own product interfaces and deliver independently. The team strongly prefers San Francisco office work; remote candidates must work in US time zones and travel to the office regularly.

From the employer

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
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:

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)

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