University Grad – Product Engineer (2026-2027) - Los Angeles or San Francisco

At TRM, writing code can literally save lives. Our platform helps governments, financial institutions, and crypto companies detect and prevent financial crime — from terrorist financing to human trafficking. The Full-Stack Product Engineering team builds the core products and services that make this possible, from customer-facing applications to foundational APIs and internal tools. We’re looking for an early-career engineer who’s eager to grow quickly by shipping real-world features and contributing directly to this mission.

As a Product Engineer, you’ll work alongside experienced mentors, product managers, and designers to solve complex problems, write production-grade code, and build features that matter. You’ll gain exposure across the full stack—React, Node.js, Postgres—and be part of a high-velocity team building the infrastructure of trust for the crypto economy.

The impact you’ll have here:

• Build and ship full-stack features across TRM’s core products and internal tools, with guidance and mentorship from senior engineers.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to clarify requirements, ask smart questions, and break down complex problems into shippable pieces.

• Learn how to design and build APIs and services with scalability, performance, and maintainability in mind.

• Write clean, tested, and well-documented code that delivers value to TRM’s customers and stakeholders.

• Continuously improve through feedback, pair programming, code reviews, and retros—bringing curiosity and coachability to every interaction.

What we’re looking for:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field (completed by Summer 2026).

• 1–2 software engineering internships, or equivalent experience through academic or personal projects.

• Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript and an interest in full-stack development (React, Node.js, Postgres).

• An eagerness to learn: you take feedback well and show curiosity about unfamiliar systems or tools.

• Strong communication skills—you keep your team updated, ask questions early, and can explain your thinking clearly.

• Demonstrated initiative—whether through a side project, internship, or campus involvement, you’ve shown you can take ownership and see something through.

• Excitement for TRM’s mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people.

About the Team:

• Work Location Requirement: This role can be based in either our Los Angeles or San Francisco office. Employees in this position are expected to work from the office at least three (3) days per week to support in-person collaboration and team engagement.

• 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 our internal stakeholders to deliver impactful features to our internal customers and the company.

• The team’s culture is built on psychological safety wherein team members build rapport and trust-based relationships with teammates, hold each other accountable and to a high bar, collaborate extensively, and have lots of fun along the way.

• 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 a week long in duration approximately once every 4-6 weeks. On-call requests can be categorized into two large buckets; a) PagerDuty alerts that warrant immediate attention and 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.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. The compensation details listed in this posting reflect the US base salary only.

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000.

• Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.

• Please note – we factor in the different costs for geographies outside the United States.

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.

• Recruiter Intro: Qualifications, motivations, and alignment with the role.

• Accelerate repeatable workflows

• Structure and solve problems

• Improve output quality

• Increase speed and leverage

At TRM, you should expect:

• Priorities and targets to change quickly

• Operating with a high degree of ambiguity

• Close collaboration across teams and functions

• Frequent, high-touch communication

• Creative problem-solving and out-of-the-box thinking

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.