Founding Engineer
- California
- onsite
- Full time
Posted
Free to apply. You’ll finish on the employer’s own site.
Skills mentioned
- Slack
- Figma
- CI/CD
- React
- Next.js
- AWS
+3 more
- Google Cloud
- Machine Learning
- Prototyping
About Us:
Maxima is an early-stage startup helping enterprise accounting teams streamline the tedious process of month-end closing. Our founders have experience coming from both sides of the problem: from overseeing the finance org at Rubrik, to building month-end close systems at Netflix, Twitter, Airbnb & Meta. We have raised a large seed round from investors of Glean, Rippling, Slack, Figma and other finance leaders at large unicorn companies.
Role Overview:
As a founding engineer, you will be at the core of building our product from the ground up. You’ll have the opportunity to shape both the front-end and back-end architecture, working closely with the founders and early customers to solve complex financial problems.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
Maxima is an early-stage startup helping enterprise accounting teams streamline the tedious process of month-end closing. Our founders have experience coming from both sides of the problem: from overseeing the finance org at Rubrik, to building month-end close systems at Netflix, Twitter, Airbnb & Meta. We have raised a large seed round from investors of Glean, Rippling, Slack, Figma and other finance leaders at large unicorn companies.
Role Overview:
As a founding engineer, you will be at the core of building our product from the ground up. You’ll have the opportunity to shape both the front-end and back-end architecture, working closely with the founders and early customers to solve complex financial problems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead full-stack development of key product features that directly solves a problem for our customers.
- Work directly with our customers, synthesize their feedback and help develop our roadmap.
- Build and maintain robust integrations with financial systems including ERPs, HRIS, Procurement software, and CRMs
- Design and implement core components of the backend platform, including the jobs framework, flexible data ingestion, and complex financial modeling
- Ensure best practices in software development, including code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD
- Collaborate with the founding team on product strategy, feature prioritization, and customer feedback loops
- Build and maintain planning and agentic workflows using the state of the art large language models
- Collaborate on technical decisions on scalability and security
- Help build the engineering team and culture
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
- 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, preferably with early-stage startups
- Strong experience building financial systems is preferred
- Proficiency in front-end technologies such as React, NextJS
- Strong experience with relational databases and modeling
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)
- Ability to understand basic machine learning concepts and quickly ramp up on
- Startup mentality with a passion for rapid prototyping, testing, and iterating on feedback
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