Thera
Founding Engineer
7mo ago
100000 –250000 USD / yearUSASeniorpayrollpaymentstreasurymoney movementglobal payroll
Founding Engineer role to build and scale core backend systems for global payroll and money movement at Thera, working closely with the CEO and product team.
Requirements
- 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
Other
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- You want a pure management role
- You avoid ambiguity or messy real-world systems
- You're not willing to be in-person in NYC
- 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