Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack | Product Engineering

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The Senior Software Engineer will build and operate scalable full-stack systems, public APIs, web applications, and backend services while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver customer and internal business capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Work on complex engineering problems that help you build and hone not only technical skills but also project management and human/soft skills
• Develop and maintain public APIs that are part of the API Product suite
• Collaborate with stakeholders on transforming a functional vision into a tangible roadmap with clear outcomes
• Support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities
• Develop cross-functional relationships with stakeholders across the organization to understand and empower their mission from end to end
• Experience designing and building scalable systems, web applications, APIs, and services (our backend is built in Node.js but prior experience in Node.js is not required; we believe tools and languages can be learned on the job)

Requirements:

• Backend engineering experience building and operating scalable production-grade services (e.g Node.js, Java, Python, Go, or similar
• Proficiency in modern frontend development, including frameworks such as React, with experience building interactive, design-heavy high-performance UIs
• Experience designing and building scalable systems, web applications, APIs, and services
• An understanding of storage systems such as relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and analytical databases
• Demonstrated experience in understanding customer pain points and bridging their needs to technical & product requirements
• A high degree of initiative and ownership, combined with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly to change
• Exceptional ability to structure problems and identify the most critical issues to prioritize
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing
• Experience working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with a diverse group of people at all levels in an organization
• The team's timezone is a mix of EST and PST with at least 6 hours of overlap with PST (8 am to 2 pm PST)
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM
• We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks
• Experience designing and building scalable systems, web applications, APIs, and services (our backend is built in Node.js but prior experience in Node.js is not required; we believe tools and languages can be learned on the job)