Staff Engineer

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Staff Engineer New York | OnSite 🚀 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)

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