Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Maxima AI; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 11,077,000 - 14,769,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

401k

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Maxima AI is hiring a Staff Engineer to drive initiatives with broad business and technical impact. You will own major product and engineering areas and work closely with customers to solve complex problems.

The role emphasizes delivering scalable systems and robust abstractions in a fast-growing startup. The position requires 7+ years building systems at high-growth companies, with strong experience in web development, databases, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Scale our platform to support large and growing enterprise workloads.
• Architect a durable and scalable financial data processing layer.
• Build the infrastructure that powers our agentic systems.
• Solve intricate accounting workflows through clean and robust abstractions.
• Own major product and engineering areas and collaborate with customers.

Skills

Web development

Relational databases

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Fintech domain knowledge

Job description

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!