# Staff Engineer

**Company:** [Thera](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/thera)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $100k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, System Design, Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-05-29

> Thera is seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer to own the technical foundation and scale their financial OS for SMBs. This role involves architecture, engineering execution on complex problems, and tech-leading a small team.

## Job Description

## 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)

## 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.

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