About the Job
Hercules is looking for a Staff Billing and Monetization engineer to build and own our billing, payments, and monetization infrastructure.
You will own everything billing and monetization at Hercules
Billing and subscriptions: Plans, subscriptions, entitlements, prorations, credits, and one-time charges
Key Responsibilities
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
Required Skills & Abilities
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
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
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.
