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Founding Engineer

Thera
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New York City$100k - $250k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Founding Engineer role at Thera (NYC, in-person) to build the financial OS for SMBs, scale global payroll and money movement, and help shape NYC engineering culture from day one.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 3 to 7+ years building and shipping production systems
  • Thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, cares 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

Skills

Required:TypeScript
Nice to have:JavaKotlin

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Thera

Financial OS for SMBs

Thera is an AI-native ecosystem of apps to run a modern business: global payroll, treasury, spend management, invoicing/payments. Thera works with hundreds of the world's leading companies like Oceans, 20four7VA, Landed, Zendrop, Oneleet, Codingal and Meru to supercharge their growth. Backed by Y Combinator, Amino Capital, Zillionize, 10x Founder, and many more.

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