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Staff Engineer

Thera (YC) is building the de facto platform for remote startups to manage their🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$250,000🗓 2026-09-23

Core

Designing and scaling the technical foundation for a financial operating system handling payroll, payments, treasury, and accounting for SMBs.

Role type

Staff Engineer (hands-on IC with team leadership)

Builds

Scalable systems for payroll, payments, spend, docs, and cash management; internal tooling; infrastructure.

Domain

Fintech / Financial Services / Payments / Accounting

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System architecture, technical direction, engineering execution, security & compliance, team mentorship, roadmap planning, regulated environment experience.

Preferred skills

TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, scaling complex systems, hiring tech leads.

Technologies

TypeScript, Java, Kotlin

Responsibilities

Define architecture and technical direction for high-leverage areas; execute on hardest stack problems; mentor and tech-lead a small team; make decisions on security, reliability, and scalability; partner with product/ops to translate workflows into systems; ship roadmaps and improvements.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact and team leadership

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