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title: "Founding Engineer"
company: "Thera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/thera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/thera-founding-engineer-34c7c6cd-00d9-464c-8db3-e73e8fcd021a"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thera/4723563e-ffd3-427f-8077-014eedf33dcf"
workplace: onsite
location: "New York"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["java", "kotlin", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2025-11-17T17:22:11.416Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-27T09:28:52.614Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Thera** — New York

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thera/4723563e-ffd3-427f-8077-014eedf33dcf

## About Thera

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.

## About the role

### 🚀 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 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)

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