USA remote
Staff Software Engineer, Product
About this role
What are we looking for? Hercules https://hercules.app 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.