Senior/Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents

About the Company

At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting with intelligent, action-oriented systems. Our platform handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust, reliable executions that must be precise and accurate. Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve agentic systems that perform and orchestrate complex accounting automation using AI
• Scale the AI Agents platform to support large and rapidly growing enterprise workloads
• Architect durable, highly-available, and scalable financial data processing layers
• Construct low-latency, extensible infrastructure to enable the deployment and iteration of next-gen agents
• Solve intricate enterprise accounting workflows through robust, composable abstractions and AI-driven automation
• Own mission-critical product and engineering areas and drive the roadmap for the AI automation platform

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building backend systems at high-growth, high-scale technology companies
• Demonstrated experience architecting, building, or maintaining AI agent harnesses or agentic platforms
• Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed/data-intensive systems
• Proven ability to design, deploy, and iterate on scalable infrastructure and automation components
• Ability to work in-person 5 days a week in downtown San Mateo

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive benefits including 401k
• Unlimited PTO