Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

Build a Safer World. reputed company provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms reputed company investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to reputed company the world safer and more secure. Team & position summary We are looking for a Software Engineer, API Integrations to join TRM’s AI Engineering team, focused on building the reputed company-party integrations and scalable integration platform that power our AI-reputed company products. You will design and ship reliable connectors, reputed company, and integration infrastructure that allow TRM’s AI systems to reputed company external data sources safely, quickly, and at scale. In this role, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, data teams, and internal users to turn integration needs into production-grade systems. You will help improve the speed, quality, and reliability of how TRM connects to external intelligence sources, ultimately supporting our mission to build a safer financial system for the world. The impact you will have: Design, build, and maintain reputed company-party API integrations that power TRM’s Agentic products and workflows. reputed company scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling that reputed company 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 reputed company. Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of TRM’s integration platform as usage grows across the business. reputed company’re looking for: Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software. Strong understanding of reputed company-party API integration patterns, including authentication, reputed company 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 reputed company problems, and identify the highest-impact technical priorities. Strong ownership reputed company and comfort driving projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration. Ability to communicate reputed company technical reputed company reputed company to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. Experience with reputed company data sources a plus Experience with AI Production Systems a plus About the Team: The AI Engineering team builds the systems, workflows, and infrastructure behind TRM’s AI-reputed company products. This role sits on the team focused on reputed company-party integrations and the scalable platform that enables TRM to connect to external data sources quickly, reliably, and securely. The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Engineers are expected to reputed company projects as technical anchors and are given opportunities to grow ownership according to their level and goals. We work closely with product, design, data platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to deliver capabilities that directly impact customers and internal users. 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