What are we looking for?
Hercules is looking for a staff level frontend software engineer to help us build the future of AI software development
What will you do?
You will build and own user-facing interfaces and experiences 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
- Mobile app, our PWA-based mobile building experience
- Marketing pages, our public display pages for products, features, and docs
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, opinionated UX/UI sense
- Our core frontend stack: TypeScript, React, (and ideally some containers, Postgres, and Redis experience)
- 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.
