Backend Engineer, Agent Tools
TRM Labs provides a blockchain intelligence platform to help organizations investigate, monitor, and detect crypto and digital asset fraud and financial crime. They serve government agencies, financial institutions, and crypto businesses worldwide.
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About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides a next-generation blockchain intelligence platform designed to investigate, monitor, and detect crypto and digital asset fraud and financial crime. The platform features extensive asset coverage, supporting over 200 million assets across more than 41 blockchains, including NFTs and DeFi protocols. It offers cross-chain analytics to trace the flow of funds seamlessly between different blockchains and utilizes over 150 risk categories, including FATF's money laundering predicate offenses, for customized risk scoring. TRM's data is built from a large, proprietary database of illicit activity combined with advanced data science. The company serves a global client base, including government agencies, financial institutions, and crypto businesses, helping them to safeguard the crypto financial system, maintain high standards for AML/CFT compliance, and build trust in digital assets.
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About the Role
You will design and ship reliable connectors, APIs, services, and integration infrastructure that allow TRM's AI systems to access external data sources safely, quickly, and at scale. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, data teams, and internal users to turn integration needs into production-grade systems. You will help improve the speed, quality, and reliability of how TRM connects to external intelligence sources. You will join a team that operates on a weekly sprint schedule, where you are expected to lead projects as a technical anchor and given opportunities to grow ownership. You will participate in an on-call rotation approximately one week long, occurring once every 4-6 weeks, responding to PagerDuty alerts and triaging support requests.
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
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