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Experiment with our landing pages to optimize sign up conversion\n\nSign up →activation conversion: Make sure we get every user to the \"aha\" moment\n\nSign up → Paid conversion: Convert free users into paying customers with upsells, entitlement experimentation, paywalls, time constrained discounts, and more\n\nRetention: Make sure customers keep building on Hercules and stay engaged\n\nExpansion & monetization: Continue to grow revenue from existing customers through plan upgrades, increased usage, add-ons, or conversion from monthly to annual plans\n\nWhat skills do we expect you to have?\nWe expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:\nSoftware fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design\n\nCode and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. 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