Founding Engineer

🚀 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