Founding Engineer

🚀 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.

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