TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Data Product team to build and scale backend systems that power real-time blockchain intelligence products, specifically focusing on architecting core services that analyze petabyte-scale blockchain data and power high-fidelity data products.
Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Other
- Join a mission-driven, fast-paced team made up of experts in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence, tackling complex global challenges daily.
- Collaborate across product, data science, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor junior engineers on backend best practices.
- The team is spread out over several countries and time zones, built a culture grounded in trust, transparency, and adaptability.
- We're driven by a deep sense of ownership, constant pursuit of improvement and an obsession with delivering magical experiences to our customers.
