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Head of Engineering (NYC)

Thera (YC S22)

Thera (YC S22)

New York, NY, USA
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
🌳 About the Role

Thera is building a financial OS for global teams.

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to join our growing team.

We're fresh off a seed round and backed by some of the world's leading investors: Y Combinator, Oliver Jung, Bayhouse Capital, 10x Founders, Amino Capital, Zillionize, House Capital, and many notable angels.

🏆 What You’ll Achieve

  • Lead the Engineering Team
  • Lead full-stack development
  • Combine in house and 3rd party APIs functionality to build holistic platform
  • Define our engineering culture and best practices from the ground up
  • Collaborate closely with our CTO and CEO and directly impact product roadmap

About You

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

📈 Requirements

  • Fast-learner: you are proactive and able to pick up new things quickly
  • Builder: you have experience working with Kotlin, React.js, NextJS, Spring Boot, or similar frameworks
  • Product minded: you genuinely want to build something people want, you enjoy talking to users and learning their needs

🚀 Bonus Points

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • 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! ✨