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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.\nMaxima 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.\nWe'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.\nThe role\nWe 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.\nAs a Senior or Staff engineer on the AI Agents team, you will lead the building and scaling of the core agentic systems behind enterprise accounting automation: the agents that do the accounting work for our customers. You will own the full lifecycle of agent architecture, implementation, deployment, and optimization, and solve hard distributed systems and intelligent automation problems where software engineering, AI, and enterprise operations meet.\nYou will own mission-critical product and engineering areas, talk to customers regularly to understand what real-world requirements look like, and help drive the roadmap for the platform. We value engineers with strong technical foundations who show initiative, curiosity, and the ability to iterate quickly.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild and evolve the agentic systems that perform and orchestrate complex accounting automation\n\nScale the AI Agents platform to support large and rapidly growing enterprise workloads\n\nArchitect durable, highly available, and scalable financial data processing layers to support the agents' work\n\nBuild low-latency, extensible infrastructure for deploying and iterating on new agents\n\nSolve intricate enterprise accounting workflows through robust, composable abstractions\n\nWhat we're looking for\nTypically 5 or more years building backend systems at high-growth, high-scale technology companies\n\nExperience architecting, building, or maintaining AI agent harnesses and agentic platforms\n\nStrong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed, data-intensive systems\n\nAbility to design, deploy, and iterate on scalable infrastructure and automation components for AI-driven workflows\n\nDeep interest in AI agent architectures, workflow engines, data pipelines, or mission-critical automation in domains like fintech or enterprise software\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, and an eagerness to work cross-functionally\n\nWhere and how you'll work\nThis role is based in our San Mateo office. We value in-person collaboration and are in office four to five days a week for our on-site roles.\nWhy join Maxima\nThe work. Agentic accounting is a category being defined right now, and Maxima is one of the companies defining it. The product does the accounting work itself, so what you build, sell, or deploy shows up in a customer's books\n\nThe people. Founders who ran the finance org at Rubrik and built the close systems at Twitter and Netflix. Engineers from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Controllers and accountants on the team who have closed books themselves. Small teams in San Mateo and Toronto that work in the same room, say what they think, and hold a high bar\n\nThe benefits. Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits\n\nThe process. A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage\n\nA note on AI\nWe build AI and we expect you to use it. 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