Backend Engineer, Agent Tools (LATAM)

Overview

Backend Engineer on TRM's AI Engineering team, building third-party API integrations and the scalable integration platform that power TRM's AI-native products.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations that power TRM's Agentic products and workflows.
• Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling that make 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 outcomes.
• Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of TRM's integration platform as usage grows across the business.

What you'll need

• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software.
• Strong understanding of third-party API integration patterns, including authentication, rate 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 complex problems, and identify the highest-impact technical priorities.
• Strong ownership mindset and comfort driving projects from vague requirements through production launch and iteration.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with product, design, data, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with OSINT data sources.
• Experience with AI production systems.

Details

• Location: South America (LATAM).
• Team timezone is a mix of EST and PST, with at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, generally 8 am to 2 pm PST.
• On-call rotation of approximately one week, occurring once every 4–6 weeks, responding to PagerDuty alerts and triaging customer or internal support requests from designated Slack channels.
• Team operates on a weekly sprint schedule.
• Compensation reflects US base salary only; individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location, and the role may be eligible for TRM's equity plan.