Founding Engineer

Engineering

  • Menlo Park, California
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    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. 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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMenlo Park, California

    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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