Company Description At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting. Our system handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable. We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, and we’ve assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta.
Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and we’re trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling. Role Overview As a staff engineer, you will be driving initiatives with broad business and technical impact. This role is not tied to a single area - staff engineers at Maxima help solve our most important and complex problems. Notable challenges include: - Scaling our platform to support large and growing enterprise workloads - Architecting a durable and scalable financial data processing layer - Building the infrastructure that powers our agentic systems - Solving intricate accounting workflows through clean and robust abstractions You’ll own major product and engineering areas + get to work closely with customers.
Beyond technical excellence, we value engineers who are curious and take initiative. What We're Looking For - 7+ years building systems at high-growth companies - Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems - Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a strong plus - Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo Why Join Us: - Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes. - Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth. - Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up. - Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO) Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!
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