AudaciousWhat Cursor is to engineers, Maxima is to accountants.
Maxima is building the first real AI financial-close platform, a system that turns the slow, manual, month-long book close into a continuous close. The hard problems here are engineering problems: unifying mission-critical financial data into one real-time workflow, then putting correct, auditable automation on top. They’re hiring two senior engineers to own that surface.
Yogi Goel
Founding member of Rubrik’s finance team; grew ARR ~$5M→$900M to IPO. WSJ CFO Council.
Akshaya Srivatsa
Eng leader at WhatsApp; founding engineer → VP Eng at Bolt.
Jack Liao
Netflix billing & close; Bolt’s 6th engineer; Airbnb. CMU + Waterloo.
What’s the actual technical problem?
Enterprise accounting is a $300B function still run on manual reconciliation and spreadsheets. Teams spend 20–22 days every month closing their books, and the data lives fragmented across GLs, ERPs, CRMs, and billing systems, with no real-time visibility until the close is already over. It’s the last major enterprise function untouched by modern automation.
This means ingesting and unifying that financial data into one real-time source of truth, then running accurate, auditable accounting logic and agents on top. Correctness and trust are the bar, this is books, not analytics.
How is the product architected?
Three layers. The agent only works because the two layers beneath it are real.
AI junior accountant
Memory · Excel · messaging · agentic workflows.
Domain accounting logic
Reconciliation · flux analysis · accruals & revenue · close tasking · audit trails.
Unified financial data layer
GL · ERP · CRM · billing → one real-time workflow.
Long-term vision: continuous close, books that close on day zero.
Who you’d be working with.
~20 engineers, with low attrition, the team that built this is still here. It’s a TypeScript / React shop with a high pedigree bar: Google, Meta, Airbnb, Robinhood, Apple, Netflix, Twitter, Glean, and top HFT firms.
Investors consistently rank Maxima the strongest technical + domain team in the category, people who have solved this exact problem at scale, in-house.
Recent coverage.
Maxima raises $41M in a Kleiner Perkins-backed round
Reuters on the AI accounting startup’s Series A. Read →
Maxima rolls out AI agent for enterprise accounting
How the platform automates the financial close. Read →
Yogi Goel: tech, teamwork and triumphs
An EY alumni profile of Maxima’s co-founder & CEO. Read →
Named a Best Place to Work
By the San Francisco Business Times & Silicon Valley Business Journal. Read →
The open roles.
Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
- Design UX patterns for agentic workflows
- Architect performant, data-dense interfaces for complex financial workflows
- Build and scale the design system and component architecture across an expanding product surface
- Translate intricate accounting workflows into clean, enterprise-friendly interfaces
- Typically 5+ years building production web apps at high-growth companies
- Deep expertise in modern frontend, React, TypeScript, and the broader ecosystem
- Strong eye for design and interaction details
- Bonus: data-dense interfaces or streaming/agentic UX
- Comfort touching APIs, schemas, or backend to ship end-to-end
- Loves in-person culture, 5 days a week in downtown San Mateo
DevOps / DevSecOps Engineer
- Why now: high-profile breaches plus growing enterprise compliance demands made this a structural priority, not a nice-to-have
- The infra has to scale with the customer base, and stay audit-ready while it does
Backed to define the category.
A $41M Series A at a $143M valuation, 40+ enterprise logos, including Scale AI, SpotOn, Rippling, and Gorgias. Demand keeps accelerating as finance teams modernize the close.
It’s the last untouched enterprise function, with a team that’s solved it in-house, and it’s early enough that two senior hires set the technical direction for the next decade of the product.
Backed by Audacious · Redpoint · Kleiner Perkins. Trusted by finance teams at Scale AI, SpotOn, Rippling, Gorgias, +36 more.
The platform that will define the next decade of enterprise finance infrastructure.
Two senior hires set the technical direction. If correctness and trust are the kind of bar you want to clear, let’s talk.