Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

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.

The people using Maxima every day are controllers and accountants working through data-dense, high-stakes workflows, and the interface they see is yours. As a Senior or Staff Frontend Engineer, you will own the user-facing surfaces of the platform, from the agent interactions customers rely on daily to the workflows that run their financial operations. You will own major product surfaces end to end and work closely with customers to shape what gets built. Beyond technical excellence, we value frontend engineers who care about craft, performance, and the details that separate good products from great ones.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and build UX patterns for agentic workflows

• Architect performant, data-dense interfaces for complex financial workflows

• Build and scale our design system and component architecture across an expanding product surface

• Translate intricate accounting workflows into clean, intuitive interfaces that enterprise users find easy to use

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Typically 5 or more years building production web applications at high-growth companies

• Deep expertise in modern frontend: React, TypeScript, and the broader ecosystem

• A strong eye for design and interaction details

• Comfort going beyond the frontend when needed, touching APIs, schemas, or backend code to ship a feature end to end

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience building data-dense interfaces or streaming and agentic UX patterns

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.onth-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!

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.