Founding Engineer
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Founding Engineer at Thera responsible for architecting, building, and scaling core systems for global payroll and money movement, owning large parts of the product from day one.
About this role
About Thera
Thera is building the financial OS for modern SMBs — payroll, payments, treasury, spend, accounting, docs, all in one ecosystem. We're backed by the worlds leading investors including Y Combinator, 10X Founders, Zillionize, Amino Capital, etc.
As a Founding Engineer, you’ll help architect, build, and scale the core systems that power global payroll and money movement. You’ll work directly with the CEO, ship fast, own large pieces of the product, and shape the engineering culture from day one.
What You’ll Build
New products across our broader ecosystem (Spend, Docs, Cash, Accounting)
About You
3–7+ years building and shipping production systems
You thrive in ambiguity, move extremely fast, and care deeply about craft
Comfortable owning 0→1 features end-to-end
Bias toward action, simple solutions, and high standards
Preferred experience with Typescript + Java/Kotlin
Why Thera
This is a true founding role: huge ownership, meaningful equity, direct impact on product and culture, and a chance to build one of the most important fintech platforms of the next decade.
You can read more about our cultural principles here: https://www.getthera.com/principles
