Senior Backend Software Engineer
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 9/2/2026
Funding history
Investors
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.
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 reliable, scalable backend systems, web applications, services, and public APIs. You will translate functional visions and customer pain points into technical requirements, roadmaps, and clear outcomes. You will provide shared engineering services to internal business units, lead projects as a technical anchor, validate implementation options through time-boxed prototypes, and balance scope, quality, and delivery speed. You will also participate in an on-call rotation and triage internal-tools support requests received through designated Slack channels.
Requirements
- Experience designing and building scalable systems, web applications, APIs, and services
- Understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and analytical databases
- Experience identifying customer pain points and translating them into technical and product requirements
- Ability to structure problems and identify critical priorities
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to technical and non-technical audiences verbally and in writing
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders at all organizational levels
- Applied AI fluency
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain public APIs within the API product suite
- Design and build scalable backend systems, web applications, APIs, and services
- Translate functional visions and customer pain points into technical and product requirements and roadmaps
- Support internal business units through shared engineering services and functionality
- Build cross-functional stakeholder relationships and support their objectives end to end
- Lead projects as a technical anchor
- Prioritize engineering work and adapt plans as new information emerges
- Use time-boxed prototypes to evaluate implementation options and feasibility
- Participate in the internal-tools on-call rotation
- Triage internal-tools support requests from designated Slack channels
- Use AI to accelerate workflows, solve problems, improve quality, and increase delivery speed
Benefits
- Potential eligibility to participate in TRM Labs' equity plan
Hiring Process
Recruiter introduction; hiring manager interview; first round of 1–2 skills-focused interviews; final round of 3–5 interviews covering craft, problem-solving, and alignment; references; offer. Most processes also include a case study, AI skills assessment, and Leadership Principles interview.