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 9/25/2026

450 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
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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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations, backend services, data pipelines, and shared integration infrastructure. You will turn integration needs into production systems, improve platform reliability and observability, and collaborate with product, data, infrastructure, and internal stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software
  • Understanding of third-party API integration patterns, authentication, rate limits, retries, error handling, data normalization, and monitoring
  • Experience with relational databases, analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architectures
  • Ability to structure complex problems and identify technical priorities
  • Experience driving projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration
  • Ability to communicate technical ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience collaborating with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams
  • OSINT data-source experience is a plus
  • AI production-system experience is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations
  • Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling
  • Build APIs, backend services, and data pipelines
  • Translate integration needs into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes
  • Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of the integration platform

Benefits

  • Equity plan eligibility

Hiring Process

Recruiter intro → hiring manager interview → first round of 1–2 skill-focused interviews → final panel-style hands-on case study → references → offer.