What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Toronto position at Maxima?
Company Description
At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting.
Our system handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable.
We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, and we’ve assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and we’re trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling.
Role Overview
As a senior/staff engineer, you will be driving initiatives with broad business and technical impact. This role is not tied to a single area - senior/staff engineers at Maxima help solve our most important and complex problems. Notable challenges include:
What We're Looking For
At Maxima, we’re building an agentic AI platform to automate enterprise accounting.
Our system handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable.
We’re tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation, and we’ve assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Maxima is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and we’re trusted by category-defining customers like Scale AI and Rippling.
Role Overview
As a senior/staff engineer, you will be driving initiatives with broad business and technical impact. This role is not tied to a single area - senior/staff engineers at Maxima help solve our most important and complex problems. Notable challenges include:
- Building our agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation
- Scaling our platform to support large and growing enterprise workloads
- Architecting a durable and scalable financial data processing layer
- Building the infrastructure that powers our agentic systems
- Solving intricate accounting workflows through clean and robust abstractions
What We're Looking For
- Typically 5 years building systems at high-growth companies
- Strong familiarity with web development, relational databases, and distributed systems
- Experience with AI agents, data pipelines, mission-critical systems (e.g. fintech), or complex workflow engines is a strong plus
- Loves in-person culture, we are 5 days a week in office, location near Union Station / King street
- Cares deeply about culture
- Be a core part of a mission-driven startup looking to transform accounting processes.
- Work in a fast-paced environment where your decisions directly impact product direction and company growth.
- Opportunity to grow with the company and build a technical team from the ground up.
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits (401k, unlimited PTO)