Software Engineer

What are we looking for?

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

 

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

• Developer Experience, the tools, environments, and workflows our engineers use to quickly and safely ship to production

 

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