Software Engineer
US$100,000 – US$300,000 / yr base salary
Posted 4 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff Software Engineer, Product”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$100,000 – US$300,000 / yr |
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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
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AI Agent, the AI harness that enables anyone to build powerful full-stack applications
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App Builder, the interface that makes it ridiculously easy to build, preview, and deploy apps
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SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media,
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Mobile app, our PWA-based mobile building experience
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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:
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Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
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Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
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Product sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers
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Design sense: beautiful sense of UX/UI using cutting-edge frontend innovations
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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
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Our core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, and Redis,
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AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding
What’s Hercules’ stack?
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Technologies: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal