Founding Backend Software Engineer
Thera (YC S22)
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
🌳 About the Role
We’re looking for a well-seasoned backend engineer ready to hit the ground running and build the HR platform for the future of work.
🏆 What You’ll Achieve
You are a strong engineer who moves fast while keeping scalability in mind. You will thrive in our culture if you:
We’re looking for a well-seasoned backend engineer ready to hit the ground running and build the HR platform for the future of work.
🏆 What You’ll Achieve
- Lead backend development
- Combine in house and 3rd party API provider functionality to build holistic HR platform
- Define our engineering culture and best practices from the ground up
- Collaborate closely with our CTO and CEO and directly impact product roadmap
You are a strong engineer who moves fast while keeping scalability in mind. You will thrive in our culture if you:
- Have a strong bias towards action and prioritize execution above else
- Easily handle the unstructured environment of fast moving startups
- Have the hunger to grow together with Thera as we scale up
- Fast-learner: you are proactive and able to pick up new things quickly
- Builder: you have experience working with Kotlin, Spring Boot, or similar frameworks as well as DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases
- Product minded: you genuinely want to build something people want, you enjoy talking to users and learning their needs
- Previous experience in payroll / HR tech
- Previous experience building and deploying on AWS
- Previous experience at high-growth, fast-paced startups
- If you’re a builder who wants to shape the future of HR, join us! ✨