Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 7+ years building systems at high-growth companies
- Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems
- Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a strong plus
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
