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)
