Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Hercules Industries, Inc.

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software development
  • Strong understanding of system design, architecture, and API design
  • Proficient in writing clean, maintainable code within monorepos
  • Experience scaling large, data-intensive, multi-tenant services
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Postgres, and Redis
  • Demonstrated ability to ship impactful product changes independently
  • Knowledge of AI technologies and their application in coding

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain infrastructure for the AI Agent
  • Develop the App Builder interface for easy app creation
  • Ensure reliable hosting for hundreds of thousands of apps
  • Integrate SDKs into user applications
  • Support the enterprise-grade platform for a large user base

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget
  • Flexible vacation policy allowing you to take what you need
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Daily meals and snacks provided in the office
  • Opportunity to achieve your best work in a supportive environment
Full Job Description
What will you do?

You will build and maintain the infrastructure powering 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
  • App Hosting, 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, etc
  • Platform, our enterprise-grade platform that supports 100s of thousands of users


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
  • Infrastructure: scale large, data-intensive, multi-tenant, distributed services
  • Product sense: track record of independently shipping lots of changes that directly impact customers
  • 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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