TRM Labs

Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

TRM Labs
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3 months ago
USA (city not specified)Mid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations powering TRM’s agentic products and workflows.
  • Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling for adding external data sources.
  • Build reliable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines for high-volume, mission-critical product experiences.
  • Translate integration needs into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes with product, engineering, data, and internal stakeholders.
  • Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of the integration platform.
  • Lead projects as a technical anchor and drive decisions across product, design, and technical implementation.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation approximately one week every 4–6 weeks, responding to PagerDuty alerts and triaging support requests in Slack.

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 structure ambiguous problems and identify high-impact technical priorities.
  • Strong ownership and ability to drive projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.
  • Experience with OSINT data sources is a plus.
  • Experience with AI production systems is a plus.
  • Applied AI fluency is expected and evaluated during the interview process.

Benefits

  • Distributed-first work environment with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.
  • The team operates across EST and PST time zones with at least six hours of overlap with PST, generally from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PST.
  • Eligible employees may participate in TRM’s equity plan.
  • Opportunity for high ownership, direct product feedback, and rapid delivery in a mission-driven environment.
  • An on-call rotation occurs approximately once every 4–6 weeks.

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About TRM Labs

201-500 employees

TRM Labs builds AI-powered blockchain intelligence and investigation software for government agencies and financial institutions to detect, trace, and disrupt crypto‑related crime. Its platform supports AML, sanctions, fraud, and threat‑intelligence use cases, combining data analytics with tools for case building and transaction monitoring. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves customers worldwide across public‑ and private‑sector markets.

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