Senior/Staff Software Engineer
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A senior/staff engineer drives initiatives with broad business and technical impact, owning major product and engineering areas to solve complex problems in enterprise accounting automation.
About this role
Rockstar is recruiting for an agentic AI platform company that automates enterprise accounting. They are building a system that handles high-volume financial data, complex accounting workflows, and robust executions that must be accurate and reliable. They are tackling some of the hardest problems in enterprise automation and have assembled a world-class engineering team with staff-level talent from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. The company is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins and Redpoint Ventures, and is 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 the company help solve its most important and complex problems.
Notable Challenges Include:
- Building agentic systems that power real-world enterprise accounting automation
- Scaling the platform to support growing enterprise workloads
- Architecting a durable and scalable financial data processing layer
- Building the infrastructure that powers the 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, the company values 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, 5 days a week in office in downtown San Mateo.
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 them in revolutionizing accounting month-end close and making accounting operations more efficient for businesses everywhere!
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