Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs. Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, and accounting in one ecosystem that actually works end-to-end.
About the role
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
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Core systems powering global payroll and money movement
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Large pieces of the product, end-to-end
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Helping lead our existing engineering team of 5+ in India
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Building our in-person engineering presence in NYC from scratch
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Direct partnership with the CEO and product team
Your first 90 days
30 days
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Ship a meaningful improvement or net-new feature on the spend product
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Get deep with the product team and the India engineering team
60 days
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Map out future builds across the roadmap
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Start leading product meetings
90 days
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Ship autonomously across at least one product surface
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Help build out our NYC in-person engineering culture
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Influence how we hire the next wave of engineers
About you
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3 to 7+ years building and shipping production systems
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You thrive in ambiguity, move extremely fast, and care deeply about craft
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Comfortable owning features end-to-end from zero to one
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Bias toward action, simple solutions, and high standards
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Comfortable working with a distributed team across time zones
Stack today: TypeScript + Java/Kotlin
Not a fit if
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You want a pure management role
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You avoid ambiguity or messy real-world systems
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You’re not willing to be in-person in NYC
Why Thera
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Huge ownership and meaningful equity
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Direct impact on product and culture
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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