Software Engineer - Frontend
Software Engineering · Full-time
San Mateo, CA, USA
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, in real time and to SOX standards. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human.
Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our founders oversaw the finance org at Rubrik and built the month-end close systems at Twitter and Netflix. We've raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Audacious Ventures, and we're backed by finance leaders at OpenAI, Rubrik, and Vanta. Maxima runs in production at Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, and SpotOn.
We are early, we are growing fast, and we are hiring people who would rather build the category than join it. Here is one way to do that.
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 frontend engineer at Maxima, you will build intuitive interfaces for advanced accounting workflows, working closely with product, design, and backend engineers, and sometimes directly with customers to get new features out the door. You will help lay the design foundations for an AI-native enterprise accounting platform, with real ownership and real influence over where the product goes. We value engineers who care about the user as much as the code.
What you'll do
Build intuitive user interfaces for advanced accounting workflows
Build the design foundations for an AI-native enterprise accounting platform
Work closely with product, design, and backend engineers
Work directly with customers to drive the release of new features
What we're looking for
2 or more years building product at high-growth companies
Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Redux, or similar frameworks
Strong understanding of React lifecycles and rendering
Familiarity with web development and relational databases
Good product and user experience sense
Where and how you'll work
This 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.
Why join Maxima
The 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
The 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
The benefits. Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits
The process. A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage
A note on AI
We build AI and we expect you to use it. Use it to research us and to prepare. In live conversations we want your own thinking in your own words, and if you use AI on a take-home exercise, tell us where it helped.
Equal opportunity
Maxima is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we will arrange it.