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What are we looking for?
Hercules is looking for a Staff Billing and Monetization engineer to build and own our billing, payments, and monetization infrastructure.
What will you do?
You will own everything billing and monetization at Hercules
Billing and subscriptions: Plans, subscriptions, entitlements, prorations, credits, and one-time charges
Usage-based billing: AI credits, Cloud credits, usage metering, and overage charges.
Payments and providers: Integrations with popular payment providers like Stripe, Adyen, Paypal and other popular payment providers. Our goal is to support as many payment methods and currencies as we can
Hercules Commerce : The billing and payment capabilities our customers can use inside their apps to transact with their customers. Similar to Stripe Connect Latency, reliability, and scale: Fast, resilient infrastructure with robust webhook processing, retries, and reconciliation as usage and transaction volumes grow What skills do we expect you to have?
We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:
Billing and payments : extensive experience with providers like Stripe, Adyen, etc., and subscriptions, usage-based billing, regulation, and more 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 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 are 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-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)