Software Engineer

About the role

ABOUT MAXIMA

Nobody went into accounting to spend the first week of every month matching transactions by hand. Maxima was built so they don't have to. Our agents do the accounting work itself: journal entries, transaction matching, reconciliations, and flux analysis, continuously and with a full audit trail. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human.

Maxima is the agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our three co-founders scaled finance at Rubrik from $5M ARR to a $15B NYSE IPO, built the reconciliation and billing systems behind Netflix's $32B in annual revenue, and built AI infrastructure serving two billion monthly users at Meta. We've raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Audacious Ventures, joined by former BlackLine executives and the CFOs of Rubrik and Vanta. To date we've processed more than $400B across 350M transactions at 100.00% accuracy, for customers including Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, Zendesk, Handshake, Zip, and Decagon.

We're early and moving fast. The playbook here gets written, not inherited, and the person closest to the work makes the call. We're looking for people who build from first principles and hold themselves accountable for what actually lands — people who'd rather build the category than join it. Everything you need to know is below.

THE ROLE

We are working on some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, with an engineering team that includes staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. The system handles high-volume financial data and complex accounting workflows, and every execution has to be accurate and reliable, because the output is a company's books.

As a Software Engineer at Maxima, you will build and improve core parts of the product, with a primary focus on either backend or frontend. Either way, you will ship features end to end with other engineers, product managers, and customers, and see your work in the hands of finance teams. We value engineers who take ownership, care about correctness and reliability, and like real-world problems with real consequences.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Backend focus: build the systems that handle high-volume financial data, accounting workflows, and the infrastructure behind our agentic AI platform

- Frontend focus: build intuitive, reliable user experiences for complex enterprise workflows, working closely with product and design

- Ship features end to end with other engineers, product managers, and customers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 2 or more years building product at high-growth companies

- Familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems

- Experience with TypeScript, React, Redux, or similar frameworks

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems such as fintech, or complex workflow engines