# Founding Engineer at Thera

Founding Engineer at Thera in New York. On-site, full-time, paying $100k–$250k. Posted November 17, 2025.

- Company: Thera
- Location: New York
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $100k–$250k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2025-11-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thera/4723563e-ffd3-427f-8077-014eedf33dcf/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-thera-8z903c

## 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

## Description

**🚀 Founding Engineer, Thera (NYC)**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**