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Staff Engineer

Thera

New York, NYFull-timeNo compensation foundTracked 6 days agoVerified open 6 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
No compensation found
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

Job overview

Thera is building a financial operating system for modern SMBs and seeks a hands‑on Staff Engineer in New York to own technical foundations across payroll, payments, and accounting, shaping architecture, security, and scalability while collaborating closely with product and operations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

JavaKotlinTypeScriptPaymentsAccountingPayrollSpendDocsCash

Full job description

🚀 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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