--- title: 'Software Engineer - AI Agents at LiveFlow' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ai-agents-liveflow-san-francisco-rg89bx6p08qc' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Software Engineer - AI Agents at LiveFlow - **Company:** LiveFlow - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-05-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/liveflow/e1ba2bad-030a-4bc2-9bbd-f1375f712a57 ## Job description San Francisco, CA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite) ## ABOUT LIVEFLOW LiveFlow is building the next-generation accounting and finance platform - enabling lean finance teams to run massive enterprises. We’ve raised over $21M from top-tier investors including YC, YC Continuity, Valar, Seedcamp, WndrCo, Moonfire, and Bradley Horowitz (VP Product, Google). Today, thousands of companies rely on LiveFlow to streamline their financial workflows, with hundreds of 5/5 ratings on G2. Our founding team previously worked at Revolut, one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs. ## WHY JOIN US At LiveFlow, we expect more from engineers than writing and reading code. You’ll work closely with customers and help shape the product to solve their problems. We’re looking for people who are not only comfortable with uncertainty, but actively thrive in it. You should want to ship unreasonably fast and iterate rapidly. You should challenge assumptions, solve from first principles, and take great pride in building features that customers love. You’ll work as closely with a team of talented engineers as you will with product and design. You’ll quickly accrue autonomy and responsibility. ## THE ROLE We’re hiring Software Engineers to build AI agents that power the next generation of LiveFlow. This is a full-stack role at its core, with a strong focus on designing and developing agent-driven systems embedded throughout the product. We’re building a system of collaborating agents, with precision tools and robust auditability, giving our users superpowers they can deploy with confidence. ## WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON - Understanding customer workflows, use-cases and jobs to be done - Building AI agents to simplify and eliminate tedious and error-prone tasks - Developing the realtime platform for finance teams to work together and with agents - Designing and scaling APIs and CLI to enable interoperability - Contributing to compounding engineering practices that enable our team to operate more efficiently and effectively - Ensuring high standards of data security, reliability, and compliance ## HOW WE USE AI In Engineering: - We offer unlimited budget to use and explore the latest coding tools - You can work with whatever agents and environment you prefer, locally or in the cloud - We employ the principles of compound engineering, expecting everybody to invest in bettering the agentic coding environment, through docs, skills, tools and MCP - We use Linear to spec our work, Graphite for stacked PRs and better review UX, Cubic for assisted code review, Blacksmith to run our CI/CD In the Product: - Anything a user can do, an agent should be able to do – through tool calls, APIs and CLI - Like software, the work of accounting is changing from the acts of writing and doing to the acts of reading and reviewing – we’re building to enable that future - Accuracy, auditability and security remain non-negotiable - Speed, efficiency and simplicity are how we stand out ## OUR STACK - Backend: Elixir / Phoenix - Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript - Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform We don’t expect experience in everything. If you’ve worked with functional languages, frameworks like Rails/Django, or modern frontend stacks, you’ll ramp quickly. What matters most is your ability to learn, adapt, and build. ## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Strong software engineering fundamentals - Experience building with AI agents, LLM-powered systems, or workflow automation - Product mindset – you care about users and outcomes, not just implementation - Ability to operate in fast-paced environment where we embrace uncertainty - High ownership and willingness to wear multiple hats - Intuition for when to follow best practices and when to rethink them ## PERKS & BENEFITS - Competitive salary + equity - Health insurance - Pension plan - Latest tech (MacBook, monitors, etc.) - Learning budget (books, courses, conferences) - Unlimited vacation ## INTERVIEW PROCESS - Intro call - Technical assessment - Technical interview - Career history interview - Founder interview ## About LiveFlow ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: LiveFlow provides an AI-native ERP and FP&A platform that unifies accounting, AP/AR, and financial planning to automate the month-end close and reporting for multi-entity businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (with major offices in San Francisco, London, and Lisbon) [liveflow.com/careers](https://liveflow.com/careers) - **Founded**: 2021 [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liveflow) - **Founders**: Lasse Kalkar (CEO), Evan O'Brien (CTO), Teresa Wang (Product Founder) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveflow) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Accounting & Finance Software (AI-ERP, FP&A) - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise finance teams, especially multi-entity businesses in construction, healthcare, retail, food & beverage, franchises, and private equity. - **Mission statement**: “Transform the $200B+ accounting & finance industry by replacing the fragmented, legacy finance stack with one intelligent system.” [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liveflow) ## Products & Services - **[Flow](https://liveflow.com/)**: AI-native ERP that unifies accounting, AP/AR, and FP&A in one platform. Automates real-time consolidation, month-end close, journal entries, and account reconciliation. - **[LiveFlow FP&A](https://liveflow.com/)**: Automated financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and budgeting on top of existing ERPs – works directly in Excel and Google Sheets. - **[LiveFlow for Excel / Google Sheets](https://liveflow.com/)**: Add-in that connects live financial data to spreadsheets for real-time dashboards and reporting. - **[FinanceIQ](https://liveflow.com/)**: AI agents that handle routine accounting tasks (reconciliation, AR management, draft journal entries) and only escalate when human judgment is needed. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $21.4M (as of Series A, September 2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveflow) - **Notable Investors**: Valar Ventures (Series A lead), Y Combinator Continuity Fund (Seed lead), Moonfire Ventures (Seed), with participation from other angel investors. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveflow) - **Growth Signals**: Serving 6,000+ businesses; 52 employees (+31.9% YoY); operations in 11 countries; active job postings grew +566.7% year-over-year. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveflow), [liveflow.com](https://liveflow.com/) ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified AI-ERP & FP&A**: Replaces the fragmented legacy stack (separate ERP, consolidation tools, spreadsheets) with one intelligent system. - **Agentic automation**: “Orchestrator” routes work to specialized AI agents, handling the entire close process in real time with minimal human intervention. - **Purpose-built for multi-entity physical businesses**: Tailored for industries like construction, healthcare, retail, and franchises – where generic finance software fails. - **Fast migration**: Full migration in less than one day, with no downtime. [liveflow.com](https://liveflow.com/) ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding AI agent capabilities to automate more of the accounting workflow (AP/AR, close, reconciliation). - Deepen industry-specific solutions for construction, healthcare, retail, and franchises. - Scale the platform to serve larger enterprises and more complex multi-entity structures. - Grow global footprint across North America, South America, and Europe. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: Hires across North America, South America, and Europe; team members travel for off-sites, office visits, and customer meetings. [liveflow.com/careers](https://liveflow.com/careers) - **Shape your role**: Roles are designed around individual strengths, passions, and ambitions – “We don’t put people in boxes.” - **Hire for drive over credentials**: Emphasis on ambition, curiosity, and ability to learn fast rather than pedigree or specific industry experience. - **Benefits**: Healthcare, dental, vision, 401(k), pension plan, commuter benefits. - **Growth trajectory**: High-growth startup (52 employees, 31.9% YoY headcount growth) with strong product-market fit and active hiring across engineering, sales, and product. - **Engineering culture**: Senior Full-Stack Engineers and GTM Engineers are actively recruited; tech stack likely modern (AI, cloud-native). ## Sources 1. [liveflow.com](https://liveflow.com/) 2. [liveflow.com/careers](https://liveflow.com/careers) 3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liveflow) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/liveflow) 5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/liveflow) ## Other roles at LiveFlow - [Graduate Engineer - AI Agents](https://feeny.ai/job/graduate-engineer-ai-agents-liveflow-san-francisco-crqwk7rgnbyc) — San Francisco, CA - [Software Engineer - AI Agents](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-ai-agents-liveflow-new-york-bssj7dvnsvng) — New York, NY - [Senior Full Stack Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-full-stack-engineer-liveflow-new-york-cc1qdp236vnm) — New York, NY