Hercules
AI-powered platform for building applications and websites.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 10
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Brendan Falk
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Funding Round
About
At the heart of Hercules is a bold mission to democratize software creation, fundamentally shifting the paradigm from 'coding' to 'creating.' Born from the vision of founder Brendan Falk, Hercules (formerly Zeus) empowers anyone—regardless of technical expertise—to build production-ready applications simply by chatting with an AI. We believe that the barrier to entry for building software should be creativity, not code. Our culture is one of rapid innovation and 'vibe coding,' where we leverage the latest in AI to handle the heavy lifting of backend infrastructure, database management, and deployment. We are a small, agile team based in San Francisco, passionate about giving every individual the power of a full engineering team at their fingertips. Unlike traditional no-code tools that often lock users into rigid frameworks, Hercules offers the flexibility of custom code with the ease of conversation. We handle the complex 'plumbing'—authentication, databases, and hosting—so our users can focus on their unique vision. As we continue to grow, we remain committed to our core value: that technology should serve human creativity, enabling a new generation of builders to bring their ideas to life instantly and effortlessly. We are not just building a tool; we are building a future where software development is accessible to all. By bridging the gap between idea and execution, Hercules is redefining what it means to be a developer in the age of artificial intelligence, fostering a community where imagination is the only limit.
Open positions
Technical Support Engineer, EMEA (Weekend Coverage)
Weekend-coverage (Thu–Mon) technical support engineer for Hercules, an AI agent platform that helps non-technical customers build apps. You debug and fix customer apps, improve the platform/AI agent, automate support workflows, and handle incidents, using TypeScript/React, Postgres/Redis/ClickHouse, Cloudflare/AWS, and OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models.
Technical Customer Support Engineer, North America (Weekend Coverage)
What are we looking for? We're hiring a Technical Support Engineer for weekend coverage (Thursday to Monday) to help our top customers successfully build and scale their apps. What will you do? Help resolve issues with…
Staff Technical Product Manager, Evals
Staff-level technical PM who owns evals for Hercules' AI coding agent — building and managing the offline benchmark (Hercules Bench) and online evals, leveraging data from 500k+ users to make the agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate. Technical, hands-on role on a TypeScript/React stack with AI SDK and eval platforms like LangSmith.
Senior Content Writer, Engineering
What are we looking for? Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level Content Writer to work with our engineers to write technical content for our engineering blog. What will you do? Deep dive into our engineering…
Technical Customer Support Engineer, North America
What are we looking for? We’re hiring a Technical Support Engineer to help our top customers successful build and scale their apps. What will you do? Help resolve issues with customer apps: Our customers are…
Staff Technical Product Manager, AI Agent
Staff-level technical product manager who owns Hercules' AI coding agent, with the single goal of making it cheaper, faster, and more accurate by designing the context/harness system and running online/offline evals on large usage data. Requires hands-on coding ability (TypeScript, React, AI SDK) and deep AI context-engineering experience; San Francisco in-office strongly preferred.
Staff Software Engineer, Billing and Monetization
Staff engineer who owns Hercules' billing, payments, and monetization infrastructure end to end — subscriptions, usage-based/AI-credit billing, and payment provider integrations (Stripe, Adyen, PayPal) — with emphasis on reliable, low-latency systems at scale. Core stack: TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal.
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Rust)
Staff-level platform engineer in San Francisco to lead Hercules' platform-as-a-service: a database-like object store, scalable backend services, APIs/SDKs for AI agents, and the multi-tenant infrastructure to run customer apps. Core stack is Rust, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, and AWS/Cloudflare.
Staff Software Engineer, Growth & Experimentation
Staff-level growth engineer owning experimentation and revenue across the full customer journey at an AI software-development company — landing page conversion, signup activation, free-to-paid upsells, retention, and expansion — using A/B testing platforms, SQL analytics, and a TypeScript/React/Postgres stack.
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Staff-level infrastructure engineer in San Francisco building and maintaining the infrastructure behind Hercules' AI app-development platform — the AI agent, app builder, app hosting, SDKs, and enterprise platform — using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, Docker, and Cloudflare/AWS.
Staff Software Engineer, Product
Staff-level product engineer building user-facing features for Hercules' AI-powered app-building platform — the AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, mobile PWA, and platform. Core stack is TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and frontier AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), working in-office in San Francisco.
Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Hercules is hiring a senior/staff full-stack engineer in San Francisco to build and own features across its AI-powered app-building platform — the AI agent, app builder, hosting infrastructure, SaaS SDKs, and internal AI coding harness — using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal.
Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent
Staff-level engineer who builds, owns, and improves Hercules' AI coding agent, including online/offline evals and research to make the agent cheaper, faster, and more accurate. Works with a TypeScript/React stack plus Postgres, Redis, Temporal, and frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
Staff-level frontend engineer at Hercules in San Francisco building user-facing products for an AI software-development platform: an AI agent for full-stack app building, an app builder UI, a PWA mobile experience, and marketing pages. Core stack is TypeScript and React, with some exposure to Postgres, Redis, and containers.