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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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TRM Labs

Blockchain intelligence company providing tools to detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud, financial crime, and compliance for institutions and government agencies.

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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Candidate Availability

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

About the Role

You will build and maintain scalable backend systems and public APIs, design services with performance in mind, and support internal business units through shared engineering services. You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical requirements, lead projects as a technical anchor, and participate in on-call rotation for internal tools.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building scalable systems, web applications, APIs, and services
  • Understanding of storage systems such as Postgres and analytical databases
  • Demonstrated experience bridging customer pain points to technical and product requirements
  • High degree of initiative and ownership and ability to navigate ambiguity
  • Strong problem structuring and prioritization skills
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional environments
  • AI fluency and ability to apply AI to accelerate workflows

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable backend systems
  • Design and develop public APIs
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical requirements
  • Support internal business units via shared engineering services
  • Lead projects as a technical anchor
  • Participate in on-call rotation and triage internal tools support requests
  • Work in weekly sprints and time-box spikes to de-risk decisions

Benefits

  • Eligibility to participate in TRM’s equity plan