Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

Summary

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The Backend Engineer, Agent Tools will build third-party integrations, scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure that enable TRM’s AI-native products to securely access external data sources.

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
• Engineers are expected to lead projects as technical anchors and are given opportunities to grow ownership according to their level and goals
• On-call work includes responding to PagerDuty alerts that warrant immediate attention and triaging customer or internal support requests from designated Slack channels

Skills

• 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
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM
• At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to: • Accelerate repeatable workflows • Structure and solve problems • Improve output quality • Increase speed and leverage
• Experience with OSINT data sources a plus
• Experience with AI Production Systems a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM
• At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to: • Accelerate repeatable workflows • Structure and solve problems • Improve output quality • Increase speed and leverage

Nice to Haves

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

Benefits

• This role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.
• Remote work arrangement.