Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage third-party API integrations that drive TRM’s Agentic products and workflows.

• Create scalable integration infrastructures, shared services, and internal tools for incorporating data sources.

• Construct dependable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines for high-traffic, mission-critical product experiences.

• Work collaboratively with product teams, engineering, data, and internal stakeholders to convert integration requirements into technical roadmaps and measurable results.

• Enhance the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of TRM’s integration platform.

• Lead projects as a technical anchor within a weekly sprint framework.

• Address PagerDuty alerts that require immediate attention during on-call shifts.

• Manage customer and internal support inquiries from designated Slack channels.

• Evaluate trade-offs, suggest solutions, and facilitate decisions across product, design, and technical implementations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and developing scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software.

• Strong knowledge of third-party API integration patterns, including authentication, rate limits, retries, error handling, data normalization, and monitoring.

• Experience with relational databases, analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architecture.

• Capability to navigate ambiguity and structure complex challenges.

• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to drive projects from unclear requirements through to production launch and subsequent iterations.

• Skill in clearly communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in cross-functional collaboration with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.

• Familiarity with OSINT data sources is advantageous.

• Experience with AI Production Systems is a plus.

• Availability for at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, typically from 8 am to 2 pm PST.

• Willingness and capability to participate in the on-call rotation.

• Applied AI proficiency; adept at utilizing AI to enhance workflows, organize and resolve problems, improve output quality, and increase efficiency and leverage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity plans.

• On-call rotation approximately once every 4–6 weeks.

• Distributed-first/remote work environment.

• Competitive benefits, wellness programs, and paid time off, varying by country and local employment regulations.