Staff Software Engineer, Product

Hercules Industries, Inc.

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in product development
  • Strong understanding of software fundamentals including system design and API design
  • Proficient in writing clean, maintainable code within monorepos
  • Demonstrated ability to independently ship features with a strong product sense
  • Experience with SaaS features like billing and product analytics
  • Familiarity with core technologies: TypeScript, React, Postgres, and Redis
  • Knowledge of AI tools and frameworks to enhance coding efficiency

Responsibilities

  • Build and own user-facing features for Hercules' AI Agent and App Builder
  • Develop and maintain the SDK for seamless integration into user applications
  • Create a mobile app experience using PWA technology
  • Ensure platform reliability with enterprise-grade security
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on product features

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget for personal and professional use
  • Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take what they need
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Daily meals provided in the office to foster community
  • Commitment to helping employees achieve their best work
Full Job Description
What are we looking for?

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

What will you do?

You will build and own user-facing 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
  • SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media,
  • Mobile app, our PWA-based mobile building experience
  • Platform, our user friendly experience with enterprise-grade security and reliability


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 sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations
  • SaaS: general experience with billing (subscriptions, entitlements), 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, and Redis,
  • 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


What are Hercules' operating principles?

Hercules' operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of the principles can be learned on the job, however, we do specifically filter for the following principles in our hiring process:
  1. We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
  2. We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We're proud of our work.
  3. We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.


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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