TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure world for all.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Frontend Platform Engineer to join a small but fast-growing Frontend Engineering team responsible for building the visualization and rendering systems that power TRM’s investigative platform. TRM’s product surfaces complex blockchain activity through interactive graph exploration, entity networks, and data-dense investigative interfaces. In this role, you will help build the core frontend platform and visualization infrastructure that allows analysts to explore large relational datasets and uncover illicit activity at scale. As an early member of the team, you will work on high-performance rendering systems, graph visualization, and reusable frontend infrastructure that powers TRM’s investigative workflows.
The impact you’ll have here:
Design and build the visualization platform that powers TRM’s investigative interfaces, including graph exploration and large-scale data visualization.
Develop high-performance rendering systems using technologies such as Canvas, WebGL, and GPU-accelerated rendering to visualize complex datasets.
Build reusable visualization libraries, SDKs, and platform primitives that enable teams across TRM to build powerful data exploration experiences.
Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews to improve architecture, performance, and maintainability.
Develop a deep understanding of crypto and blockchain investigation workflows to inform product design and platform capabilities.
Help define the next generation of data exploration tools used by investigators and financial institutions worldwide.
What we’re looking for:
Strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals with experience building large-scale frontend systems.
Experience building data-dense web applications, such as analytics platforms, visualization tools, or mapping systems.
Hands-on experience with Canvas, WebGL, or GPU-accelerated rendering.
Experience working with data visualization libraries such as D3, PixiJS, Three.js, or similar tools.
Experience building or working with graph / network visualization systems, using tools like D3-force, Cytoscape.js, vis.js, Sigma.js, or similar.
Familiarity with graph layouts such as force-directed, hierarchical, or radial layouts.
Experience optimizing performance in complex UIs using techniques such as: virtualization, viewport culling Web Workers, and large-dataset rendering optimization
Experience designing reusable frontend systems, SDKs, component libraries, or developer platforms.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithmic thinking.
Experience with React and modern frontend frameworks.
About the Team:
The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Individuals on the team are tasked with leading projects as technical anchors and given opportunities to grow and take ownership according to their level and goals.
We work closely with product, design, and our engineering partners in data platform teams to deliver impactful features to customers and the company.
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)
We have an on-call rotation that is a week long in duration approximately once every 16 weeks. On-call requests can be categorized into two large buckets; a) PagerDuty alerts that warrant immediate attention b) customer support requests from specific Slack channels that an on-call engineer is responsible for triaging and answering
Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
Ruthless Prioritization & Adaptability: We adapt quickly when faced with new information. For example, an engineer may message the PM or EM to prioritize Task A vs. Task B in the middle of the sprint – we don’t let inertia guide our decisions. Instead we focus on ruthless prioritization and pivot quickly as needed.
Challenging Timelines (Execution Pressure): An engineer questions a teammate’s proposed 3-week timeline, and constructively argues for condensing it to 2 weeks—backed by rationale, tradeoffs, and a plan to reduce scope or increase velocity. They show ownership of delivery speed and willingness to push for urgency.
Time-Boxed Spiking (Rapid Learning & Decision-Making): An engineer proposes a 1-week spike with a clear time-box and success criteria to explore implementation options or validate feasibility through a proof of concept. They demonstrate speed not just in execution, but in de-risking decisions early.
About TRM's Engineering Levels:
Engineer: Responsible for helping to define project milestones and executing small decisions independently with the appropriate tradeoffs between simplicity, readability, and performance. Provides mentorship to junior engineers, and enhances operational excellence through tech debt reduction and knowledge sharing.
Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up. Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing.
Staff Engineer: Drives scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams. Partners with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps for one or more products. Is a role model and mentor to the entire engineering organization. Ensures system health and quality with operational reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring rigor.
We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
TRM moves quickly. We are a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it will ship here in days.
Our work sits at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting financial crime. The problems are complex, the stakes are real, and the environment evolves quickly. The pace and intensity of the work reflect the importance of the mission. As a result, the way we operate requires a high level of ownership, adaptability, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
At TRM, you should expect:
Priorities and targets to change quickly as we experiment and iterate
Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
A high level of personal ownership and accountability
Close collaboration across teams and functions
Frequent, high-touch communication
Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking
A pace that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes
This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined. It also requires comfort navigating ambiguity, adjusting course as new information emerges, and maintaining focus and positivity in a fast-moving and intense environment.
We also recognize that this style of operating is not for everyone. If you are primarily optimizing for predictability or a consistently balanced workload, we encourage you to use the interview process to pressure test whether this environment is truly the right fit. We want team
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