Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Build a Safer World.

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  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 Type Script 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 to lead projects as technical anchors, and given a chance to grow and take ownership according to their level and goals.

• We work closely with product, design, and with 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).

• On Call:
  We have an on-call rotation that is approximately one week every 16 weeks.

• Frontend usually doesn't get pager duty alerts but gets frontend issues from customer support channels and the on-call is responsible for triaging if it is a frontend bug or sometimes really a backend issue.

• It gets busy during some on-call weeks but has not been wake-up from sleep type of alerts.

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