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Payroll, payments, treasury, spend, and accounting in one ecosystem that actually works end-to-end.\nWe'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.\nThis is a true founding role. You'll be in the code, owning large pieces of the product, and working directly with the CEO.\nNYC, 5 days/week\nWhy we started Thera\nOur 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. 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