Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Hercules Industries, Inc.

• $100K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in frontend development
  • Strong understanding of software fundamentals including system design and API design
  • Proficient in TypeScript and React, with familiarity in Postgres and Redis
  • Demonstrated ability to independently ship features to customers
  • Aesthetic sensibility for creating beautiful UX/UI designs
  • Experience with AI technologies to enhance coding efficiency

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain user-facing interfaces for various Hercules products
  • Develop the AI Agent to empower users in building full-stack applications
  • Create and optimize the App Builder for seamless app development
  • Design and implement a mobile app experience using PWA technology
  • Craft marketing pages to effectively showcase products and features
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product offerings

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget for personal and professional use
  • Flexible vacation policy allowing you to take what you need
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Daily meals provided in the office, including lunches and dinners
  • Opportunity to achieve your best work in a supportive environment
Full Job Description
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


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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