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title: 'Full-stack Engineer at Hercules'
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# Full-stack Engineer at Hercules

- **Company:** Hercules
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hercules/74b8c4b2-dbdb-48a0-9b8c-45f2c20add7e

## Job description

What are we looking for? [Hercules](https://hercules.app) 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.
- 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 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.

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.

What are Hercules’ benefits?

- Unlimited AI token budget
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Healthcare, vision, and dental
- Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
- We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

What’s the compensation? $100k-$250k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)

## About Hercules

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hercules is an AI-powered platform that enables users to build full-stack apps, websites, and SaaS products by chatting with AI, without writing code.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Series A stage, backed by a16z)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Brendan Falk (CEO) and Grant Gurvis (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered software development / no-code / low-code platform
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C; individuals, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and enterprises wanting to build custom software (SaaS, internal tools, eCommerce, mobile apps, landing pages)
- **Mission**: To enable 8.5 billion people to build their own custom software in minutes.

## Products & Services
- **Hercules Platform**: A full-stack, AI-native app and website builder. Users describe what they want in natural language, and Hercules generates a complete application with auth, backend, database, file storage, email, AI features, payments, push notifications, analytics, and hosting. Deploys in one click to a custom domain, App Store, or Google Play Store.
  - Type: SaaS / AI-powered development platform
- **Hercules Commerce**: Built-in payment processing for selling SaaS subscriptions, physical/digital goods, and services.
  - Type: Integrated payments module
- **Hercules CMS**: Content management solution for building websites and marketing pages.
  - Type: Integrated CMS module
- **Hercules Email**: Email sending solution integrated into the platform.
  - Type: Integrated communication module
- **Hercules Files & Media**: File and media storage and management.
  - Type: Integrated storage module

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Millions in revenue (stated on careers page); 300k+ users (stated on homepage)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by a16z (Andreessen Horowitz). Founders previously founded Fig, which was acquired by Amazon and became Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+800% YoY, from <1 to 4 employees on LinkedIn); 24 active job postings; monthly LinkedIn follower growth of +42.9%. The company is less than a year old (founded 2025) and already has millions in revenue.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Unlike retrofitted no-code tools, Hercules is built from the ground up for AI-first development, enabling natural language to full-stack app generation.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders previously built Fig (acquired by AWS), giving them deep expertise in AI coding assistants and developer tools.
- **Full-stack out of the box**: All apps include auth, backend, database, payments, hosting, and 1000s of API integrations — no stitching together separate services.
- **Scalable infrastructure**: Designed to scale apps to millions of users, with infrastructure built on Cloudflare and AWS.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Building out platform modules (Commerce, CMS, Email, Files) to make Hercules a complete app-building ecosystem.
- **AI agent features**: Developing multi-agent editing, subagents, and browser automation capabilities.
- **Marketplace**: Planning infrastructure for customers to sell app templates.
- **Collaboration**: Adding multiplayer, comments/annotations, and team features.
- **Scaling team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, growth, and customer operations (24 open roles as of July 2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, high-agency environment with operating principles: "move with urgency," "strive for excellence," and "be hungry." Strong preference for shipping quickly and iterating.
- **Work model**: Strong preference for in-office at San Francisco HQ (Kearny and Bush). Remote considered for exceptional candidates in US time zones who can travel to the office regularly.
- **Compensation**: $100k–$250k + equity (varies by seniority, equity, and location).
- **Benefits**: Healthcare, vision, dental; daily lunches, dinners, and snacks in office; unlimited vacation; use of any AI productivity tools.
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers expected to be strong in system design, architecture, and AI coding tools. They work with a modern stack: React, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Cloudflare, AWS, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models. Engineers talk directly with users and ship autonomously.
- **Team size**: Very small (4 employees as of LinkedIn data) — early-stage, high-impact roles with significant ownership.

## Sources
1. [hercules.app - Careers](https://hercules.app/careers)
2. [hercules.app - Homepage](https://hercules.app/)
3. [hercules.app - Who We Are](https://hercules.app/docs/company/who-we-are)
4. [hercules.app - Software Engineer Product Job Posting](https://hercules.app/careers/software-engineer-product)
5. [LinkedIn - Hercules](https://www.linkedin.com/company/herculeshq)

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