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Staff Engineer

Thera· Engineering
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New York City, NY$100k - $250kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer at Thera, NYC, in-person role focused on owning the technical foundation across payroll, payments, and new products, guiding architecture, shipping high-leverage work, and leading a small engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • Get deep on the system, data flows, and constraints (first 30 days)
  • Identify the biggest risks (payments, data integrity, scaling)
  • Ship meaningful improvements on the spend product (first 30 days)
  • Address highest-leverage technical gaps (first 60 days)
  • Map out future builds across the roadmap (first 60 days)
  • Influence how we hire and level engineers (first 60 days)
  • Set technical direction in your areas (first 90 days)
  • Improve engineering velocity and reliability (first 90 days)
  • Help build out engineering in-person culture (first 90 days)

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:ArchitectureLeadership / people managementSecurity, reliability, scalability, complianceSystem design / backend engineeringRegulated environment experience
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Thera

Financial OS for SMBs

Thera is an AI-native ecosystem of apps to run a modern business: global payroll, treasury, spend management, invoicing/payments. Thera works with hundreds of the world's leading companies like Oceans, 20four7VA, Landed, Zendrop, Oneleet, Codingal and Meru to supercharge their growth. Backed by Y Combinator, Amino Capital, Zillionize, 10x Founder, and many more.

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