Maxima
enterprise accounting
Senior/StaffSoftwareEngineer-AIAgents
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“Senior/Staff Software Engineer - AI Agents at Maxima. Skills: AI Agents, Distributed Systems, Automation. Build and scale core agentic systems. Architect durable, highly-available, and scalable financial data processing layers”
Industry & Context.
hard distributed systems; intelligent automation challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years building backend systems at high-growth, high-scale technology companies, architecting, building, or maintaining AI agent harnesses and agentic platforms, web development, relational databases, distributed and data-intensive systems, design, deploy, and iterate on scalable infrastructure and automation components for AI-driven workflows, AI agent architectures, workflow engines, data pipelines, mission-critical automation in domains like fintech or enterprise software
Nice to Have
Staff-level talent
What You'll Do.
Build and scale core agentic systems
and scalable financial data processing layers
Construct low-latency
extensible infrastructure
Solve intricate enterprise accounting workflows
Own mission-critical product and engineering areas
Engage with customers to understand requirements
Drive the roadmap for AI automation platform
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
working closely with stakeholders at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and enterprise operations; eagerness to contribute cross-functionally; in-person teamwork
Communication Scope
communication and collaboration skills
Full Job Description
Company Description 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. We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation and have assembled a world-class 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 trusted by customers like Scale AI and Rippling. Role Overview As a senior/staff software engineer on our AI Agents team, you will take the lead on building and scaling the core agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation. This role spans the full lifecycle of AI agent architecture, implementation, deployment, and optimization. You’ll confront and solve hard distributed systems and intelligent automation challenges, working closely with stakeholders at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and enterprise operations. Key Challenges - Build and evolve our 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 to support the work of agents. - 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. You’ll be expected to own mission-critical product and engineering areas, regularly engage with customers to understand real-world requirements, and help drive the roadmap for our AI automation platform. We value engineers with strong technical foundations who demonstrate initiative, curiosity, and the ability to itera
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