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Founding Engineer

Thera

New York, NYFull-timeNo compensation foundTracked 6 days agoVerified open 6 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
No compensation found
Location
New York, NY
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

Job overview

Thera is building a financial operating system for SMBs and seeks its first NYC‑based Founding Engineer to own core payroll and money‑movement systems, collaborate with a distributed team, and establish an in‑person engineering culture from day one.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

JavaKotlinTypeScriptDistributed SystemsAmbiguity Management

Qualifications

3 to 7+ Years Building Production Systems

Full job description

🚀 Founding Engineer, Thera (NYC, in-person) Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs. Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, and accounting in one ecosystem that actually works end-to-end. We're looking for our first NYC-based Founding Engineer to help scale the systems powering global payroll and money movement, work alongside our existing engineering team in India, and seed our in-person engineering culture from day one. This is a true founding role. You'll be in the code, owning large pieces of the product, and working directly with the CEO. 📍 NYC, 5 days/week Why we started Thera Our founders saw firsthand how broken SMB payroll and finance had become. The average SMB stitches together 5+ tools just to pay people, move money, and close their books. We started Thera to collapse that fragmented stack into a single source of truth. Backed by YC, 10X Founders, Zillionize, and Amino Capital. What you'll own

  • Core systems powering global payroll and money movement

  • Large pieces of the product, end-to-end

  • Helping lead our existing engineering team of 5+ in India

  • Building our in-person engineering presence in NYC from scratch

  • Direct partnership with the CEO and product team

Your first 90 days 30 days

  • Ship a meaningful improvement or net-new feature on the spend product

  • Get deep with the product team and the India engineering team

60 days

  • Map out future builds across the roadmap

  • Start leading product meetings

90 days

  • Ship autonomously across at least one product surface

  • Help build out our NYC in-person engineering culture

  • Influence how we hire the next wave of engineers

About you

  • 3 to 7+ years building and shipping production systems

  • You thrive in ambiguity, move extremely fast, and care deeply about craft

  • Comfortable owning features end-to-end from zero to one

  • Bias toward action, simple solutions, and high standards

  • Comfortable working with a distributed team across time zones

Stack today: TypeScript + Java/Kotlin Not a fit if

  • You want a pure management role

  • You avoid ambiguity or messy real-world systems

  • You're not willing to be in-person in NYC

Why Thera

  • Huge ownership and meaningful equity

  • Direct impact on product and culture

  • A chance to build one of the most important fintech platforms of the next decade

Read more about our cultural principles: https://www.getthera.com/principles

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