CTO — Lead Fintech Platform, Architecture & Equity

SupportFinity™; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Thera is seeking an in-person Chief Technology Officer in New York City to own the technical vision and execution. You will lead architecture, engineering, and long-term strategy, shaping product development, payments infrastructure, and internal systems at scale.

As a senior leader, you will grow and manage an engineering team, partner with the CEO, and drive cross-functional initiatives across product, operations, and compliance to deliver reliable, secure fintech platforms.

Qualifications

• 3–8+ years of experience building and scaling production systems.
• Experience as CTO/VP Engineering or senior engineering leader.
• Proven track record managing engineers and leading teams.
• Strong systems thinking and high-impact architectural decisions.
• Highly organized, execution and project-management focused.
• Able to balance speed with reliability in regulated fintech.
• Experience with Typescript and Java or Kotlin preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own overall technical strategy and architecture for the Thera platform.
• Lead engineering execution across payroll, payments, and new product lines.
• Manage and grow an engineering team starting with three or more engineers.
• Make security, reliability, scalability, and compliance decisions.
• Collaborate across product, operations, and compliance.
• Plan projects, prioritize work, and manage delivery timelines.
• Hire, onboard, and manage engineers.
• Build and oversee core payroll and money movement systems.
• Develop internal tooling and infrastructure for operations and compliance.
• Drive platform improvements to reduce risk and increase velocity.

Skills

Leadership

System architecture

Team management

Fintech domain

Technical decision making

Execution & delivery

Typescript

Java

Kotlin

Job description

Thera is seeking an in-person Chief Technology Officer in New York City to own the technical vision and execution. You will lead architecture, engineering, and long-term strategy, shaping product development, payments infrastructure, and internal systems at scale.

As a senior leader, you will grow and manage an engineering team, partner with the CEO, and drive cross-functional initiatives across product, operations, and compliance to deliver reliable, secure fintech platforms.