Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Toronto

Maxima

$125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in building systems within high-growth environments
  • Strong skills in web development and relational databases
  • Familiarity with distributed systems is essential
  • Experience with AI agents, data pipelines, or complex workflows is preferred
  • Preference for in-office work culture, 5 days a week near Union Station/Kings Street

Responsibilities

  • Drive broad business and technical initiatives impacting the company
  • Build agentic systems for enterprise accounting automation
  • Scale the platform for large enterprise workloads
  • Architect a scalable financial data processing layer
  • Develop infrastructure for agentic systems
  • Create clean abstractions to solve intricate accounting workflows

Benefits

  • Be a core part of a mission-driven startup
  • Work in a fast-paced environment with direct influence on product direction
  • Grow alongside the company and help build the technical team
  • Receive competitive salary and equity package
  • Enjoy benefits like 401k and unlimited PTO
Full Job Description
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

You'll own major product and engineering areas and get to work closely with customers. Beyond technical excellence, we value engineers who are curious and take initiative.

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


Why Join Us:
  • 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)

Join us in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!

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