About the role
🚀 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.
đź“Ť NYC, 5 days/week
Why this role exists
We have:
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a product customers use
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real workflows running through it
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increasing complexity across payments, accounting, and ops
We need someone who can turn that into a durable, scalable system.
What you'll own
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Architecture and technical direction across payroll, payments, and new products
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Engineering execution on the hardest problems in the stack
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Helping hire and tech-lead a small, high-quality team (starting ~5 engineers)
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Decisions on security, reliability, scalability, and compliance in your areas
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Tight partnership with product and ops to translate real workflows into systems
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Roadmaps, prioritization, and actually shipping
What you'll build
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Systems powering payroll and money movement
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Products across Spend, Docs, Cash, and Accounting
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Internal tooling that reduces manual work and errors
