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Founding Engineer

Thera, New York

Posted pay

$100K–$250K

a year

Location: New York
Work type: Onsite
Level: Not given
Experience: 3+ years
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
Java
Kotlin
Posted: Nov 17, 2025
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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What you will do

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

What you need

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

Founding Engineer, Thera (NYC)

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.

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

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

Read the job posting on the Thera site

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