Call for Engineer

Hermes Web is looking for a founding engineer to build the first polished, hosted personal AI agent product.

Some facts about us:

• Incubated by Open Core Ventures, the studio founded by Sid Sijbrandij (ex-CEO of GitLab)
• Building the hosted, non-technical-user version of Hermes Agent — the fastest-growing open-source agent framework after OpenClaw
• OCV underwrites infrastructure and LLM costs, so you optimize for growth and polish, not unit economics
• Fully remote, product-focused, compressed sprint cadence

If you want to own product and engineering end-to-end, ship consumer-grade polish in a space that's still raw, and help define what a mainstream AI agent product looks like, this is for you.

Project described below.

• High agency, ship fast without hand-holding
• Strong Python skills — FastAPI or similar production web framework experience required
• Strong frontend skills (React, Next.js, TypeScript) for the chat, memory, and activity surfaces
• Experience with auth, billing, and multi-tenancy in production products
• Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Nomad, ECS, or equivalent)
• Experience with AI-native tools (Cursor, Claude Code, model APIs)
• Knowledge of agents, LLM gateways, rate limiting, and abuse prevention
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI workflows

• Per-tenant container orchestration via Kubernetes or Nomad
• Warm pool pattern for sub-90-second provisioning
• Idle sleep and fast wake (under 2 seconds on incoming message)
• Persistent per-tenant memory and conversation storage
• Auth via Clerk or Auth0 (email + Google OAuth, email verification required)

• React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn
• Multi-tenant chat, memory, and activity surfaces
• Graceful handling of connection loss, agent timeouts, container restarts
• Streaming responses, conversation history, new-thread flows

• Proxy every Anthropic API call from every tenant container
• Hold Anthropic API keys server-side; tenant containers never see them
• Per-tenant metering with second-by-second granularity
• Hard daily and monthly cost caps
• Circuit breakers for runaway loops
• Ops kill switch for any tenant

• Stripe subscription integration at $20/mo
• Self-serve upgrade, downgrade, cancel
• Internal ops dashboard for user management and anomaly response
• Runbooks for common failure modes

• Developer-facing platform
• Self-hosted desktop or mobile apps
• Skills marketplace or plugin ecosystem
• Workflow builder, triggers, scheduled agents
• Team accounts, SSO, enterprise features
• Multiple LLM providers or model selection
• Bring-your-own API key
• Forking Hermes — we track upstream and contribute back

• Hermes Agent — the open-source framework we build the hosted experience on top of
• OpenClaw — the largest agent framework today and reference for community patterns and growth dynamics
• LangGraph Deep Agents — architecture patterns for stateful long-running agent workflows
• Anthropic MCP — server design patterns for tool interfaces and permission-aware context
• Cowork (Anthropic) — polish bar and UX patterns for non-technical AI agent products
• Cursor agent UI — interaction model for AI agents in consumer products