Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

TRM Labs

4d • Remote

About The Position

TRM Labs is seeking a Software Engineer, API Integrations to join their AI Engineering team. This role focuses on building third-party integrations and a scalable integration platform for TRM's AI-native products. The engineer will design and implement reliable connectors, APIs, services, and integration infrastructure to enable TRM's AI systems to access external data sources efficiently and securely. The position involves close collaboration with engineers, product managers, data teams, and internal users to develop production-grade systems and improve the speed, quality, and reliability of TRM's connections to external intelligence sources, ultimately supporting the mission to build a safer financial system.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with OSINT data sources
• Experience with AI Production Systems

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.

Benefits

• TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others.
• Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed