Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

Hercules Industries, Inc.

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full-stack software engineering
  • Strong understanding of software fundamentals including system design and API design
  • Proven ability to write clean, maintainable code in monorepos
  • Experience with SaaS features like billing and identity management
  • Familiarity with core technologies: TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis
  • Ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity
  • Demonstrated product/design sense with a history of shipping features

Responsibilities

  • Build and own features for the AI Agent, enabling users to create full-stack applications
  • Develop the App Builder interface for easy app creation and deployment
  • Maintain and enhance the hosting infrastructure for scalability and reliability
  • Create and manage the SDK for seamless integration into user applications
  • Design a user-friendly platform with enterprise-grade security
  • Optimize the internal AI coding harness to significantly increase output

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget for project use
  • Flexible vacation policy allowing you to take what you need
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Daily meals and snacks provided in the office
  • Commitment to helping you achieve your best work
Full Job Description
What are we looking for?

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level full-stack software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development

What will you do?

You will build and own 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
  • Hosting infrastructure, the backend that's required to scalably and reliably host 100s of thousands of apps
  • SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media,
  • Platform, our user friendly experience with enterprise-grade security and reliability
  • Internal AI coding harness, the internal coding harness we have built to 100x our output


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/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
  • SaaS: strong experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), identity (OAuth, RBAC, SSO/SAML), 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, Redis, and Temporal
  • 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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