Founding Engineer

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Founding Engineer New York | OnSite 🚀 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

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