Head of Engineering (NYC)

🌳 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! ✨