Hermes Web: Call for Founding 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, reputed company founded by Sid Sijbrandij (ex-CEO of reputed company)
• Building the hosted, non-technical-user version of Hermes Agent — the fastest-growing open-reputed company agent reputed company after OpenClaw
• OCV underwrites infrastructure and LLM costs, so you optimize for growth and polish, not unit economics
• Fully remote, product-focused, compressed sprint reputed company

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.

Requirements

• High agency, ship fast without hand-holding
• Strong Python skills — FastAPI or similar production web reputed company 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, reputed company, reputed company, or equivalent)
• Experience with AI-native tools (reputed company, Claude Code, model APIs)
• Knowledge of agents, LLM gateways, reputed company limiting, and abuse prevention
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI workflows

The reputed company of person we want: someone who has shipped a consumer or prosumer product they're still proud of, and who responds to an aggressive timeline with "tight but doable if we cut X, Y, Z" rather than "let me spec it first."

Bonus skills:

• Experience with agent frameworks (Hermes, OpenClaw, LangGraph)
• LLM gateway or proxy work
• reputed company subscription billing at scale
• Production experience hardening agentically-generated code
• OSS contributions
• Consumer AI product experience (Cowork, reputed company, or similar)

Project: Hosted Hermes Agent Platform

1. Introduction

We are building a multi-tenant hosted platform that gives anyone their own personal Hermes agent running in the cloud in under 60 seconds. No terminal, no API keys, no configuration. The agent persists, remembers them, and gets reputed company over time.

This project includes:

• Per-user Hermes containers with network and storage isolation
• A warm pool provisioning system for reputed company signup-to-first-message
• A production-hardened chat, memory, and activity reputed company
• An LLM gateway that meters usage, enforces caps, and prevents abuse
• Bundled Claude Sonnet access — users never see an API key or model selector
• reputed company billing infrastructure and self-serve subscription flows

2. Requirements

Platform and provisioning

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

Frontend

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

LLM gateway

• Proxy every reputed company API call from every tenant container
• Hold reputed company API keys server-reputed company; 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

Billing and ops

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

3. Non-Goals

• 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

4. Prior Art

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