Own the billing and monetization infrastructure at Hercules, focusing on payments and subscriptions.
Posted by employer 8 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own everything billing and monetization
- Manage billing and subscriptions
- Implement usage-based billing
- Integrate with payment providers
- Ensure latency, reliability, and scale
Must have
- Extensive experience with billing and payments providers
- Strong software fundamentals
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code
- Experience with system design and architecture
Nice to have
- Experience with AI coding
- Product/design sense
- Experience in monorepos
Practical constraints
- Strong preference for in-office work
- Must work in US time zones
- Willingness to travel to the office regularly
AI in the day-to-day
Able to truly 10x your workflow by being on frontier of AI coding.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer for Billing and Monetization at Hercules, the individual will be responsible for developing and managing the company's billing infrastructure, including subscription models and payment integrations. Key skills include extensive experience with payment providers like Stripe and Adyen, as well as proficiency in system design and API development, using a tech stack that features TypeScript, React, and Postgres. This position is suited for a senior engineer with a strong background in billing systems and a track record of delivering features independently. Hercules emphasizes a fast-paced, excellence-driven work environment, valuing quick iterations and hig
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Hercules's careers page October 5, 2026.
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Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Billing and Monetization role remote?
- It's hybrid — Hercules expects some on-site time in San Francisco, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Hercules lists $100,000–$300,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Hercules is hiring for this position in San Francisco, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI SDK, ClickHouse, Docker, PostgreSQL, React, Redis.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Hercules targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Billing and Monetization role at Hercules.
From the original posting
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
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
We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
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
What’s the compensation?
$100k-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)
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