Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Role Description

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. 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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $210,000 - $230,000.
• This role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.

Company Description

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.