Founding Engineer

About Thera

AI-Native Finance OS

Tech

BE: - Java SpringBoot - DynamoDB - Microservice architecture FE: - Typescript - React - NextJS - Tailwind CSS

The role

# **🚀 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 zonesStack 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 decadeRead more about our cultural principles: [**https://www.getthera.com/principles**](https://www.getthera.com/principles)

Skills

• Java
• Kotlin