Staff Software Engineer, Product
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Hercules. San Francisco · full-time · $100,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and take ownership of customer-facing product features across Hercules, from its AI Agent and app builder to SDKs, mobile and platform
- Create tools for building, previewing and deploying applications, plus services users can embed in their own products
- Develop the platform experience, including its security and reliability features
What you bring
- Strong command of system architecture, data modeling and API design, with a focus on maintainable code in monorepos
- A record of independently delivering many customer features and strong judgment about user experience and interface design
- SaaS experience spanning subscriptions, product analytics and features such as localization or notifications for large user bases
- Fluency with TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres and Redis, plus effective use of current AI coding tools
Who this fits
This senior or staff-level product engineering role suits someone comfortable owning work across product features and software fundamentals. The team strongly prefers office work in San Francisco; remote candidates must work US time zones and travel to the office regularly.
From the employer
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:
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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