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# Senior/Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents at Maxima

- **Company:** Maxima
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maxima/1fa4ebb9-9314-4e4b-94f1-43c8844ae706

## Job description

Company Description

At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting with intelligent, action-oriented systems. Our platform handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust, reliable executions that must be precise and accurate.

We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation and have assembled a world-class 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 trusted by customers like Scale AI and Rippling.

## Role Overview

As a senior/staff software engineer on our AI Agents team, you will take the lead on building and scaling the core agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation. This role spans the full lifecycle of AI agent architecture, implementation, deployment, and optimization. You’ll confront and solve hard distributed systems and intelligent automation challenges, working closely with stakeholders at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and enterprise operations.

## Key Challenges

- Build and evolve our agentic systems that perform and orchestrate complex accounting automation using AI.
- Scale the AI Agents platform to support large and rapidly growing enterprise workloads.
- Architect durable, highly-available, and scalable financial data processing layers to support the work of agents.
- Construct low-latency, extensible infrastructure to enable the deployment and iteration of next-gen agents.
- Solve intricate enterprise accounting workflows through robust, composable abstractions and AI-driven automation.

You’ll be expected to own mission-critical product and engineering areas, regularly engage with customers to understand real-world requirements, and help drive the roadmap for our AI automation platform. We value engineers with strong technical foundations who demonstrate initiative, curiosity, and the ability to iterate quickly.

## What We're Looking For

- Typically 5+ years building backend systems at high-growth, high-scale technology companies.
- Demonstrated experience architecting, building, or maintaining AI agent harnesses and agentic platforms.
- Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, distributed and data-intensive systems.
- Proven ability to design, deploy, and iterate on scalable infrastructure and automation components for AI-driven workflows.
- Deep interest in AI agent architectures, workflow engines, data pipelines, or mission-critical automation in domains like fintech or enterprise software.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, and an eagerness to contribute cross-functionally.
- Passion for in-person teamwork: we are in office, 5 days a week in downtown San Mateo.

Why Join Us:

- Be a core part of a mission-driven team redefining how the world’s leading companies do accounting.
- Directly impact our product, technical direction, and the broader AI agent landscape.
- Opportunity to shape and lead technical teams as we grow.
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits including 401k and unlimited PTO.

Join us in building the future of AI Agents and revolutionizing enterprise accounting operations!

## About Maxima

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting, automating the record-to-report close process with AI agents that are accountant-reviewed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Yogi Goel (Co-founder & CEO), Akshaya Srivatsa (Co-founder & CPO), Jack Liao (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise accounting automation / AI-powered financial close software.
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise finance and accounting teams at high-growth and large-scale companies.
- **Mission**: Maximize every customer's long-term financial performance through real-time accounting.

## Products & Services
- **Maxima Agentic Accounting Platform**: An AI-native platform that automates the month-end close end-to-end. AI agents pull data from ERPs, banks, payroll, billing, and other systems to prepare journal entries, reconciliations, variance explanations, and audit trails – all accountant-reviewed and SOX-compliant. Handles cash coding, payroll JEs, balance sheet reconciliations, prepaids, commissions, leases, fixed assets, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $41.0M (Seed + Series A); processes over $300B in transaction volume for customers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint, Audacious Ventures (led Series A); customers include Rippling, Scale AI, Zip, Glean, Zendesk, and Bilt Rewards.
- **Growth Signals**: 53 employees as of mid-2025, with presence in the US, Canada, and South Korea. Headcount growing rapidly (LinkedIn followers at 5,193 with +2.3% monthly growth). Active hiring across engineering, sales, and go-to-market roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent-prepared, accountant-reviewed** model: AI agents perform the work, accountants review – combining speed with trust and auditability.
- **Finance graph**: Unifies all financial data sources into a single context and lineage model, enabling true end-to-end automation.
- **Deterministic logic with transaction-level lineage**: Every output is review-ready with full audit trail, meeting SOX compliance.
- **Built by a team of top fintech engineers (Google, Apple, Robinhood, Bolt, Meta) and former auditors from EY, PwC** – deep domain expertise.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand agentic capabilities across the entire record-to-report cycle.
- Continue building out integrations with major ERP and finance systems (150+ native integrations).
- Scale go-to-market and customer success to serve more enterprise accounting teams.
- Recruit top AI and engineering talent to advance the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Builders who want to raise the bar” – values include customer first, act like an owner, rigor at speed, invent don’t inherit, and making each other formidable. Strong emphasis on ownership and impact.
- **Work model**: Primarily onsite in San Mateo (CA) headquarters; also remote roles available across the US and Canada. Strong in-office culture with commuter benefits.
- **Perks**: Equity + top-of-market salary, health/dental/vision, 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO, free lunches and snacks, shiny new Apple equipment, team building events.
- **Engineering culture**: Small, high-impact teams working on cutting-edge LLM/agentic AI applied to a decades-old enterprise problem. Co-located in San Mateo and Toronto.

## Sources
1. [maxima.ai](https://www.maxima.ai/)
2. [maxima.ai/careers](https://www.maxima.ai/careers)
3. [maxima.ai/about](https://www.maxima.ai/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/maximaai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/maximaai)
5. [builtin.com/company/maxima-0](https://builtin.com/company/maxima-0)

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