Senior Frontend Software Engineer, TRM Labs
Product Engineering
$180-210k
More information about location
Blockchain investigations & risk management
Open for applications
Blockchain investigations & risk management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a safer financial system for billions of people.
Role
Who you are
- Knack for great design and intuitive UX
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Extensive experience modern front end frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React.js) and CSS-in-JS libraries (e.g., styled-components)
- Experience designing and building data heavy front-end applications
- Experience with virtual currencies, applications, and their use in financial networks and blockchain analysis is a plus
- Adaptable. Goals can change fast. You anticipate and react quickly
- Autonomous. You own what you work on. You move fast and get things done
- Excellent communication. You will need to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, and both verbally and in writing
- Collaborative. You must work collaboratively in a cross-functional team and with people at all levels in an organization
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer to join a small but fast-growing Frontend Engineering team that is responsible for building highly robust and seamless product features that analyze blockchain transaction activity at a massive scale
- As an early member of the team, you will be deeply involved in the technical details and ultimately champion your team to build a safer financial system for billions of people
- Building a large-scale web application that manages billions of transactions using React and Redux
- Working with Backend Engineers, Designers, and Product to build features and ship product
- Finding and addressing performance issues
- Participating in code and design reviews
- Developing a deep understanding of crypto and blockchain to inform product design and direction
- Collaborating with product lead and customers to define a new category of enterprise software
- Staying current on frontend best practices
- The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Individuals on the team are tasked to lead projects as technical anchors, and given a chance to grow and take ownership according to their level and goals
- We work closely with product, design, and with our engineering partners in data platform teams to deliver impactful features to customers and the company
- On Call: We have an on-call rotation that is approximately one week every 4 weeks
- Frontend usually doesn't get pager duty alerts but gets frontend issues from customer support channels and the on-call is responsible for triaging if it is a frontend bug or sometimes really a backend issue
- It gets busy during some on-call weeks but has not been wake-up from sleep type of alerts
- Ruthless Prioritization & Adaptability: We adapt quickly when faced with new information. For example, an engineer may message the PM or EM to prioritize Task A vs. Task B in the middle of the sprint – we don’t let inertia guide our decisions. Instead we focus on ruthless prioritization and pivot quickly as needed
- Challenging Timelines (Execution Pressure): An engineer questions a teammate’s proposed 3-week timeline, and constructively argues for condensing it to 2 weeks—backed by rationale, tradeoffs, and a plan to reduce scope or increase velocity. They show ownership of delivery speed and willingness to push for urgency
- Time-Boxed Spiking (Rapid Learning & Decision-Making): An engineer proposes a 1-week spike with a clear time-box and success criteria to explore implementation options or validate feasibility through a proof of concept. They demonstrate speed not just in execution, but in de-risking decisions early
- About TRM's Engineering Levels:
- Engineer: Responsible for helping to define project milestones and executing small decision decisions independently with the appropriate tradeoffs between simplicity, readability, and performance. Provides mentorship to junior engineers, and enhances operational excellence through tech debt reduction and knowledge sharing
- Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up. Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing
- Staff Engineer: Drives scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams. Partners with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps for one or more products. Is a role model and mentor to the entire engineering organization. Ensures system health and quality with operational reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring rigor
Our take
The crypto space has become more mainstream but it is also intensely volatile and poorly regulated, with a high degree of anonymity afforded to its users. As such it has become a major source of financial fraud with $20 billion in crypto stolen in 2022 alone. TRM Lab exists to return trust to the blockchain, helping banks, government agencies and crypto companies detect and combat fraud with its blockchain intelligence solutions.
As the risk of blockchain fraud is only increasing, with the proceeds often being used for organized crime, there are a number of companies working in this space. TRM stands out with the breadth of its crypto asset coverage and the strength of its cross-chain analytics. It has partnered with the FBI and Europol to aid its investigations, and is also used by major crypto companies MoonPay and Binance.
The company has grown its revenue by almost 500% year on year since its founding in 2018, and has raised a significant amount of capital. With the funding its secured, its further developing its product and hiring additional talent. And as businesses and government agencies increasingly come to grips with fraud in the crypto space, TRM is well poised to continue its rapid growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2022
$70m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $150.1m
Company benefits
- DIstributed, not distant
- Competitive compensation package
- Paid time off: 25 days of vacation and competitive holistic paid time off plans
- Parental leave & family planning: 18 weeks of paid parental leave (if employed for at least 180 days unless the home state or country required less tenure). For select eligible regions, we also offer fertility treatments via the Carrot platform
- Health coverage: Premium coverage for medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Company retreats
- Career growth
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Founded the Digital team at Generation, a high growth youth employment program, before launching TRM in 2018.
Rahul Raina
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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