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# Staff Engineer

Thera

🚀 Staff Engineer, Thera (NYC, in-person)
Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs. Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, accounting, and docs in one system that actually works end-to-end.
We're looking for a hands-on Staff Engineer to own the technical foundation in our highest-leverage areas and help us scale from "great product" to category-defining company.
This is not a sit-back-and-manage role. You'll be in the code, in the architecture, and in the room making high-stakes decisions daily.
📍 NYC, 5 days/week
Why this role exists
We have:
• a product customers use
• real workflows running through it
• increasing complexity across payments, accounting, and ops
We need someone who can turn that into a durable, scalable system.
What you'll own
• Architecture and technical direction across payroll, payments, and new products
• Engineering execution on the hardest problems in the stack
• Helping hire and tech-lead a small, high-quality team (starting ~5 engineers)
• Decisions on security, reliability, scalability, and compliance in your areas
• Tight partnership with product and ops to translate real workflows into systems
• Roadmaps, prioritization, and actually shipping
What you'll build
• Systems powering payroll and money movement
• Products across Spend, Docs, Cash, and Accounting
• Internal tooling that reduces manual work and errors
• Infrastructure that increases velocity without breaking things
Your first 90 days
30 days
• Get deep on the system, data flows, and constraints
• Identify the biggest risks (payments, data integrity, scaling)
• Ship a meaningful improvement on the spend product
60 days
• Start addressing the highest-leverage technical gaps
• Map out future builds across the roadmap
• Begin influencing how we hire and level engineers
90 days
• Set technical direction in your areas
• Improve engineering velocity and reliability
• Help build out our engineering in-person culture
About you
• You've built and scaled real systems
• You're still hands-on and like being close to the code
• Strong systems thinker
• You move fast and take ownership
• Comfortable operating in a regulated environment
• You've mentored or tech-led engineers before
Stack today: TypeScript + Java/Kotlin (flexible)
Not a fit if
• You want a pure management role
• You avoid ambiguity or messy real-world systems
• You're not willing to be in-person in NYC
Why Thera
• You shape the technical foundation in your areas
• You work directly with founders
• Your decisions immediately impact the company's trajectory
Backed by YC, 10X Founders, Zillionize, and Amino Capital.
More: https://www.getthera.com/principles

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