Senior Software Engineer Backend at TRM Labs

At TRM, we're on a mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people around the globe. Our next-generation platform, which combines threat intelligence with machine learning, enables financial institutions and governments to detect cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime on an unprecedented scale.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at TRM Labs, you will collaborate with an experienced team of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build highly scalable backend systems and infrastructure for TRM's products that analyze blockchain transaction activity at a massive scale. Bringing your wealth of knowledge to the team, you will be deeply involved in the technical details and ultimately work to build a safer financial system for the world.

Your responsibilities will include

• Architecting and building highly scalable, reliable, and data-heavy backend systems and APIs that will integrate a variety of data sources
• Building performant, and reliable production-grade systems, from whiteboard to production
• Working across the stack (db, cache, code, deploy) to address technical challenges anywhere in the system
• Mentoring fellow team members and participating in code reviews and design reviews
• Collaborating cross-functionally with data scientists, designers, and product managers to define and implement backend services.
• Creating novel approaches to tackling blockchain-specific challenges around scale, security, and privacy.

Some of the traits we value:

• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, web applications, APIs, and services.
• Experience with relational and analytical database systems and modeling, including concepts such as partitioning and indexing (e.g., Postgres).
• Experience with asynchronous job workflows using message queues (eg., Kafka)
• Experience with distributed systems patterns and techniques including fault tolerance, graceful degradation, consistency/ACID, and caching.
• Experience with software review, build and deployment systems (e.g., Github, Docker, AWS)
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional team environment with a diverse group of people at all levels in an organization.
• We mostly work in Node.js and Typescript. However, we care more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
• A high degree of initiative and ownership, combined with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly to change.