Staff Engineer

About the role

We are seeking 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.

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

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Stack today: TypeScript + Java/Kotlin (flexible)

Benefits

• Staff Engineer, Thera (NYC, in-person)
• Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, accounting, and docs in one system that actually works end-to-end
• Increasing complexity across payments, accounting, and ops

Pay

$100K - $250K

Schedule

5 days/week

About Thera

Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs. We are 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.

Why this role exists

We have:

• a product customers use
• real workflows running through it
• increasing complexity across payments, accounting, and ops

Why Thera

• You shape the technical foundation in your areas
• You work directly with founders
• Your decisions immediately impact the company's trajectory

Founded by

• YC
• 10X Founders
• Zillionize
• Amino Capital