Backend Engineer, Agent Tools
Blockchain intelligence company providing tools to detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud, financial crime, and compliance for institutions and government agencies.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence for investigations and compliance, offering products such as forensics, wallet screening, entity screening, transaction monitoring, and APIs. It serves financial institutions, crypto businesses, and public sector agencies to trace funds, assess risk, and build cases across digital assets.
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About the Role
Design and ship reliable connectors, APIs, services, and integration infrastructure that enable TRM's AI systems to access external data sources safely, quickly, and at scale. Collaborate with engineering, product, data, and internal users to turn integration needs into production-grade systems and improve integration speed, quality, reliability, and observability.
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 relational databases, analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architectures.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, structure complex problems, and identify high-impact technical priorities.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration.
- Ability to communicate complex technical ideas 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.
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 new data sources.
- Build reliable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines supporting high-volume product experiences.
- Translate integration needs into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of the integration platform.