Hercules - Full-stack Engineer

• We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas: • Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design • Software fundamentals • Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos • Code and codebase quality • Product/design sense: track record of independently shipping lots of features to customers • Product/design sense • 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 • Our core stack • 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. • We ship • 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. • We strive for excellence. • 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. • We are hungry • 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 is willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly. • Healthcare, vision, and dental • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office • We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here