Staff Software Engineer, Growth & Experimentation

Hercules is seeking a staff-level software engineer to focus on growth and experimentation within their AI development platform. The role centers on owning the customer journey from landing page conversion through long-term retention and expansion. Key responsibilities include optimizing landing page sign-up rates through A/B testing, ensuring users reach activation quickly, converting free users to paid customers via paywalls and pricing experiments, and improving retention through feature engagement. The engineer will also drive revenue growth by encouraging plan upgrades, increased usage, add-on purchases, and transitions from monthly to annual subscriptions. Required expertise includes strong software fundamentals, code quality, monorepo experience, and extensive A/B testing using tools like Statsig. Proficiency in SQL, analytics reporting, product design, and revenue-focused experimentation is essential. The position demands advanced skills in TypeScript, React, and AI SDKs, along with experience in containerization, database systems (Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK). Familiarity with AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), modern cloud platforms (AWS, Cloudflare), and tools like Temporal Cloud and Drizzle ORM is expected. Operating principles emphasize shipping fast, iterating quickly, maintaining excellence, and prioritizing simplicity. The role offers the opportunity to significantly impact growth metrics within a high-velocity engineering environment using cutting-edge AI and full-stack technologies.

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