Maxima

AI

SoftwareEngineer-DataInfrastructure

San Mateo, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure at Maxima. Skills: Data systems, Data infrastructure, Financial data. Build and scale systems. Ingest financial data”

Industry & Context.

AI

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years working with data systems

Nice to Have

Experience with data pipelines, Experience with mission-critical systems, Experience with complex workflow engines

What You'll Do.

Build and scale systems

Ingest financial data

Process financial data

Build multi-tenant relational DBs

Investigate search engine setup

Investigate vector database setup

Full Job Description

Company Description 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 In this role, you’ll be building and scaling the systems that ingest and process large volumes of financial data. This platform is foundational to all accounting workflows and the agentic system. Sample work includes architecting our data lakes, building our multi-tenant relational DBs, investigating the right search engine / vector database setup to support various workflows. What We're Looking For - 5+ years working with data systems at high-growth companies - Familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems - Experience with data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a plus - Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo Why Join Us: - Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes. - Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth. - Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up. - Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO) Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!

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