Frontend Engineer

Hercules

$100K — $250K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in frontend software engineering
  • Strong proficiency in software fundamentals such as system design and architecture
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code with experience in monorepos
  • Proven track record of shipping features that improve user experience
  • Expertise in TypeScript and React; familiarity with containers, Postgres, and Redis is a plus
  • Familiarity with AI tools and ability to leverage them for increased productivity
  • A strong sense of UX/UI design principles

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain user-facing interfaces for Hercules applications
  • Develop features for the AI Agent to enable full-stack application development
  • Create a user-friendly App Builder for seamless app creation and deployment
  • Design and implement mobile app experiences based on PWA principles
  • Craft and maintain marketing pages to showcase products and features
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to iterate on user feedback
  • Contribute to enhancing existing features for better user engagement

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget for personal use
  • Flexible vacation policy that allows you to take what you need
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Daily meals and snacks provided at the office
  • Commitment to facilitating your best professional work
Full Job Description
What are we looking for?

Hercules is looking for a senior or 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 sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations
  • Our core 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


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 is 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-$250k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)

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