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title: 'Founding Engineer at Engineering'
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# Founding Engineer at Engineering

- **Company:** Engineering
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2024-09-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/maximahq-com/am9icG9zdDphRxQMGkYkMxCtBhGK9mFo

## Job description

About Us:

Maxima is an early-stage startup helping enterprise accounting teams streamline the tedious process of month-end closing. Our founders have experience coming from both sides of the problem: from overseeing the finance org at Rubrik, to building month-end close systems at Netflix, Twitter, Airbnb & Meta. We have raised a large seed round from investors of Glean, Rippling, Slack, Figma and other finance leaders at large unicorn companies.

Role Overview:

As a founding engineer, you will be at the core of building our product from the ground up. You’ll have the opportunity to shape both the front-end and back-end architecture, working closely with the founders and early customers to solve complex financial problems.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead full-stack development of key product features that directly solves a problem for our customers.
- Work directly with our customers, synthesize their feedback and help develop our roadmap.
- Build and maintain robust integrations with financial systems including ERPs, HRIS, Procurement software, and CRMs
- Design and implement core components of the backend platform, including the jobs framework, flexible data ingestion, and complex financial modeling
- Ensure best practices in software development, including code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD
- Collaborate with the founding team on product strategy, feature prioritization, and customer feedback loops
- Build and maintain planning and agentic workflows using the state of the art large language models
- Collaborate on technical decisions on scalability and security
- Help build the engineering team and culture

Required Skills:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
- 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, preferably with early-stage startups
- Strong experience building financial systems is preferred
- Proficiency in front-end technologies such as React, NextJS
- Strong experience with relational databases and modeling
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
- Ability to understand basic machine learning concepts and quickly ramp up on
- Startup mentality with a passion for rapid prototyping, testing, and iterating on feedback

## About Engineering

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Maxima builds an agentic AI platform that automates enterprise accounting from record to report, eliminating manual month-end close work.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by top-tier venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, USA
- **Founded**: Year not explicitly disclosed; founded by seasoned operators with 25+ years of combined experience in tech, investment banking, and audit.
- **Founders**: Yogi Goel (CEO), Akshaya Srivatsa (CPO), Jack Liao (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise accounting automation / Finance technology (FinTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises and high-growth companies (e.g., Scale AI, Rippling)
- **Mission**: To give accounting teams their time (and joy) back by leveraging LLMs and agents to eliminate painful, manual work.

## Products & Services
- **Maxima Agentic Platform**: An AI-powered platform that automates end-to-end accounting workflows. It extracts and transforms data, prepares workbook schedules, reconciles accounts, analyzes fluxes, and produces audit-ready outputs. The platform includes a Finance Graph that unifies data from ERPs, banks, payroll, billing, and other systems, providing full context and lineage. Each agent-prepared output is review-ready with deterministic logic, continuous validations, and transaction-level audit trails.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total transaction volume processed: **$400B+** (as of September 2025)
- **Notable Investors**: Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling; engineering team staffed with talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta; actively hiring for multiple engineering roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance Graph**: A proprietary data model that unifies all financial data sources into a single, contextualized graph, enabling true automation across disconnected systems.
- **Deterministic + Agentic AI**: Unlike black-box AI, Maxima’s agents produce outputs with full lineage, inputs, and approvals, making them re-performable for auditors.
- **Enterprise Scale**: Handles millions of transactions across entities, currencies, and systems without breaking workflows or controls.
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: Founded by operators who experienced the month-end close grind firsthand, ensuring the product solves real pain points.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the agentic platform to handle larger enterprise workloads, deepening integrations with the finance stack, and expanding the customer base by solving the “decades-old problem” of manual accounting prep.
- **Direction for growth**: Continued investment in AI agents, workflow automation, and building a durable, scalable financial data processing layer.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven startup with a high bar for talent; described as “builders who want to raise the bar, not follow it.” Team includes staff-level engineers from top tech companies.
- **Work environment**: In-person, 5 days a week in downtown San Mateo, CA. Emphasis on collaboration and fast-paced decision-making.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, equity, health/dental/vision coverage, 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO.
- **Engineering culture**: Tackle hard problems in enterprise automation, build agentic systems, and own major product areas from day one. Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team.

## Sources
1. [Maxima Website](https://www.maxima.ai/)
2. [Maxima Careers Page](https://www.maxima.ai/careers)
3. [Maxima About Page](https://www.maxima.ai/about)
4. [Senior/Staff Software Engineer Job Posting](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maxima/cac7bb68-6a3e-49f9-a5a4-921af7cac56c)

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