TRM Labs - Backend Engineer, Agent Tools
Requirements
• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software. • Strong understanding of third-party API integration patterns, including authentication, rate limits, retries, error handling, data normalization, and monitoring. • Experience with storage systems such as relational databases, analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architectures. • Ability to work through ambiguity, structure complex problems, and identify the highest-impact technical priorities. • Strong ownership mindset and comfort driving projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration. • Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. • Experience with OSINT data sources a plus • Experience with AI Production Systems a plus • The AI Engineering team builds the systems, workflows, and infrastructure behind TRM’s AI-native products. This role sits on the team focused on third-party integrations and the scalable platform that enables TRM to connect to external data sources quickly, reliably, and securely. • The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Engineers are expected to lead projects as technical anchors and are given opportunities to grow ownership according to their level and goals. • We work closely with product, design, data platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to deliver capabilities that directly impact customers and internal users. • The team’s culture is built on psychological safety, high ownership, trust, accountability, and a bias toward shipping useful systems quickly. • The team’s timezone is a mix of EST and PST, with at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, generally from 8 am to 2 pm PST. • On-call: We have an on-call rotation that is approximately one week long and occurs once every 4–6 weeks. On-call work includes responding to PagerDuty alerts that warrant immediate attention and triaging customer or internal support requests from designated Slack channels.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations that power TRM’s Agentic products and workflows. • Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling that make it faster and safer to add new data sources. • Build reliable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that support high-volume, mission-critical product experiences. • Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and internal stakeholders to translate integration needs into clear technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes. • Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of TRM’s integration platform as usage grows across the business.
Benefits
• Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Salary ranges are benchmarked to local market rates for the country in which this role is based. • We do not ask candidates about salary history at any stage of the hiring process. • This role may also be eligible to participate in TRM's equity plan • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Why are you considering leaving your most recent or current position? • Please include: • What made it particularly challenging? • The total timeline from start to finish • Learnings/reflection • The final outcome and business impact • Looking back, what you would do differently? • Please include: • What is your current job search timeline? Are there any deadlines or competing processes we should be aware of? • If yes, please provide details regarding your current visa status and future sponsorship needs: • We are a distributed company. What are your preferred working hours, and what hours are you willing to work? Please include your time zone. • Please share your base compensation expectations in USD: • Yes, fully remote • Used only to assess eligibility for roles that require clearance • Do you currently have, or do you anticipate having, any outside employment, consulting, or advisory commitments outside of TRM Labs? • If "Yes", please review our Outside Work and Advisory Policy. • I have read and understand the expectations of working at TRM. I understand this is a high intensity, high ownership environment, and I wish to be considered for a role with these expectations. • Recruiting Privacy Policy • TRM Labs may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.
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