Senior Backend Engineer, TRM Labs
Data Product
$200-230k
Digital Asset Compliance & Risk Management
Open for applications
Digital Asset Compliance & Risk Management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-230k
201-500 employees
Company mission
TRM Labs' mission is to blend blockchain data with advanced analytics to help financial institutions and governments fight fraud, money laundering, and financial crime.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in designing and scaling backend systems for data-rich applications
- Strong Python development skills; bonus if you've worked with Go or other typed backend languages in production
- Experience designing and maintaining robust APIs, including schema design, versioning, and system observability
- Expertise in distributed data systems: You have hands-on experience with technologies like Spark, Kafka, Flink, or Dataflow for large-scale data ingestion and transformation
- Deep familiarity with data stores like BigQuery and Postgres, including performance tuning for large, complex queries
- Production experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or dbt, and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS), including CI/CD pipelines, Terraform-based deployments, and observability with tools like Datadog or Prometheus
- Demonstrated success building high-impact backend systems that shipped to production and scaled with user or data growth
What the job involves
- TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Data Product team, where you'll play a pivotal role in building and scaling backend systems that power real-time blockchain intelligence products
- This is a deeply technical, backend-focused role ideal for engineers passionate about designing performant distributed systems and data platforms that serve high-throughput, low-latency use cases
- As a Senior Engineer, you will architect core services that analyze petabyte-scale blockchain data, power high-fidelity data products, and contribute to TRM’s mission to build a safer financial system
- Design and implement scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that serve complex analytics and insights on blockchain activity
- Engineer data-centric microservices that power features across TRM’s intelligence platform, balancing performance, resilience, and modularity
- Own the full lifecycle of backend systems, from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Model and manage large-scale blockchain data, ensuring efficient access and rapid query performance across various products
- Collaborate across product, data science, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration between backend systems and customer-facing features
- Drive technical architecture discussions for backend and data services, and mentor junior engineers on backend best practices
- The team received a request from customers to show the running balance for assets tied to an address within the product. They brainstormed to determine the minimal viable solution that could be delivered within two weeks. The team decided to develop a framework that would facilitate enabling this feature for each chain (such as BTC, ETH, etc.) individually
- They successfully implemented and tested this solution for the BTC chain and delivered it to customers within the two-week timeframe. This approach allowed the team to quickly provide value to customers and establish a repeatable process
- The team was tasked with implementing a new feature that would enable TRM to gather feedback from the user community swiftly. Due to the company's goal of showcasing the feature at an upcoming event, the timeline was tight
- The team quickly adjusted to the request, assessed the requirements, and developed a solution that addressed 80% of the needs and could be executed within a very short timeframe. They successfully delivered the feature on schedule, impressing customers with both the functionality and the speed of execution
- The team was tasked with developing a solution to reveal Indirect Exposure through cross-chain swaps in response to a competitor's similar feature. Before choosing the technical approach, the team consulted with stakeholders to establish a feasible timeline for the implementation
- With this input, the team devised a solution that fit the timeline, communicated the tradeoffs to stakeholders, and successfully delivered the solution as promised
- 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
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 recently raised a significant amount of capital in a Series B fundraising round. It is planning to use this money to further develop its product and hire additional talent. 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
- Remote-first work environment, with optional in-person offices
- Regular team off-sites and retreats
- Premium health, dental, and vision insurance
- FSA, HSA, and 401K programs
- Life & disability coverage
- Paid time for vacations, volunteering, sick leave, and generous parental leave
- Fitness, co-working, and home office reimbursements
- Professional learning and development stipends
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(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
(CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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