Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Hercules is hiring a senior/staff full-stack engineer in San Francisco to build and own features across its AI-powered app-building platform — the AI agent, app builder, hosting infrastructure, SaaS SDKs, and internal AI coding harness — using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal.
- Compensation
- $100K–$300K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Senior or staff level full-stack software engineering experience
- Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Write clean, maintainable code and work effectively in monorepos
- Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
- Strong SaaS experience: billing (subscriptions, entitlements), identity (OAuth, RBAC, SSO/SAML), product analytics (A/B testing, feature flags), i18n, notifications
- Core stack experience: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal
- Able to 10x workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
Nice to have
- Willing to work in-office in San Francisco, or work US time zones and travel regularly if remote
Full 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
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:
- We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.