Payroll reimagined from the ground up. Streamline hiring, compliance, benefits, and global payroll. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
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.
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🚀 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
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.
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,...
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