--- title: Staff Software Engineer, Billing Monetization description: Hercules is hiring for the Staff Software Engineer, Billing Monetization role in San Francisco, CA. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-software-engineer-billing-monetization-at-hercules-01a10f5d-d92d-717f-a9ac-a404d684e9ca date: 2026-10-06T04:19:12Z og_description: Join Hercules as Staff Software Engineer, Billing Monetization in San Francisco, CA. Pays $100K–$300K per year. Full-time, hybrid role. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/kpl5es.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | hercules.app | | **Location** | San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) | | **Salary** | $100K/yr - $300K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 04, 2026 | ## Description **What are we looking for?** [Hercules](https://hercules.app) 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**](https://hercules.app/docs/apps/commerce/get-started)**:** 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: 1. **We ship**. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers. 2. **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. 3. **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) ## Skills - Temporal - Cloud Computing - PayPal - Amazon Web Services - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Systems Design - Adyen - Docker - Artificial Intelligence - Webhooks - PostgreSQL - Anthropic Claude - ClickHouse - Terraform - Billing - Cloudflare - OpenAI - Hono - Tailwind CSS - AI-Assisted Coding - Payment Methods - AWS Cloud Development Kit (Cdk) - Software Development Kit (Sdk) - TypeScript - Redis - Metering - API Design - Data Modeling - Stripe - OpenTelemetry - Drizzle ORM - Monorepo ## Related - [Technology & Software jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Development jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Software Developer / Engineer jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/careers/technology-and-software/software-development/software-developer-engineer?utm_source=ai_markdown)- [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Explore this job market - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 264806 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 117493 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 26836 jobs ## Related pages - [California](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 264806 jobs - [Software Products](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors/technology/software-products?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 117493 jobs - [San Francisco, CA](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us/california/san-francisco?utm_source=ai_markdown) — 26836 jobs ## Browse - [Companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by country](https://www.foundrole.com/locations?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs in the United States by state and city](https://www.foundrole.com/locations/us?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B sponsors by location](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-sponsors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [H1B salaries](https://www.foundrole.com/h1b-salaries?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Sectors and industries](https://www.foundrole.com/sectors?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Jobs by career field](https://www.foundrole.com/careers?utm_source=ai_markdown) - [Latest jobs](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/latest?utm_source=ai_markdown)