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title: 'Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Maxima'
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# Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Maxima

- **Company:** Maxima
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maxima/cac7bb68-6a3e-49f9-a5a4-921af7cac56c

## 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 senior/staff engineer, you will be driving initiatives with broad business and technical impact. This role is not tied to a single area - senior/staff engineers at Maxima help solve our most important and complex problems. Notable challenges include:

- Building our agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation
- 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 and get to work closely with customers. Beyond technical excellence, we value engineers who are curious and take initiative.

## What We're Looking For

- Typically 5+ years building systems at high-growth companies
- Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems
- Experience with AI agents, 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!

## 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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