Thera
Fintech
StaffEngineer
“Staff Engineer at Thera. Skills: Architecture, Technical direction, Engineering execution. Own architecture. Own technical direction”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale from great product to category-defining; Turn complexity into durable, scalable system; Ship a meaningful improvement on spend product; Improve engineering velocity; Improve engineering reliability; Reduce manual work and errors; Increase velocity without breaking things
Industry & Context.
Identify biggest risks; Address technical gaps; Systems thinker
NYC, 5 days/week, In-person in NYC
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Hands-on Staff Engineer, Own technical foundation, In the code, In the architecture, Make high-stakes decisions, Turn complexity into durable, scalable system, Systems powering payroll, Systems powering money movement, Products across Spend, Products across Docs, Products across Cash, Products across Accounting, Internal tooling, Infrastructure, Get deep on system, Get deep on data flows, Get deep on constraints, Identify biggest risks, Address highest-leverage technical gaps, Map out future builds, Set technical direction, Improve engineering velocity, Improve engineering reliability, Build out engineering culture, Built and scaled real systems, Still hands-on, Close to the code, Systems thinker, Move fast, Take ownership, Comfortable operating in regulated environment, Mentored engineers, Tech-led engineers, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin
Nice to Have
Category-defining company, Tech-lead a small team, Influence how we hire engineers, Influence how we level engineers, Help build out in-person culture
What You'll Do.
Own technical direction
Own engineering execution
Own decisions on security
Own decisions on reliability
Own decisions on scalability
Own decisions on compliance
Build systems powering payroll
Build systems powering money movement
Build products across Spend
Build products across Docs
Build products across Cash
Build products across Accounting
Build internal tooling
Get deep on data flows
Get deep on constraints
Identify biggest risks
Address technical gaps
Map out future builds
Set technical direction
Improve engineering velocity
Improve engineering reliability
Build out engineering culture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Tight partnership with product; Tight partnership with ops; Tech-lead a small team; Help hire engineers; Help level engineers
Process & Methodology
Roadmaps, Prioritization
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