Job description

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 : • 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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Must-haves

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
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
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

Nice-to-haves

Strong experience building financial systems is preferred

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