# Staff Engineer - Company: [Thera]() - Location: New York - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $100K – $250K - Posted: May 29, 2026 ## 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: ## Apply [Apply on Thera]() Canonical job page: