Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

The Role

Lead and develop a pod of engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack disciplines.

Own execution of key product initiatives end-to-end, from scoping through delivery and iteration.

Partner closely with Product and Design on roadmap planning, tradeoffs, and prioritization.

Drive predictable delivery while maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and maintainability.

Provide technical leadership through design reviews, architectural discussions, and unblocking engineers.

Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to ensure smooth integrations and shared ownership.

Establish strong engineering fundamentals: clear documentation, observability, testing, and operational rigor.

Foster a culture of ownership, velocity, and clear communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2–5+ years of people management experience.
• Proven success leading multidisciplinary engineering teams (frontend + backend).
• Strong product engineering background with experience shipping user-facing workflows or product surfaces.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and move quickly with incomplete information.
• Technical grounding that allows you to evaluate designs, review code, and guide architectural decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and strong cross-functional partnership instincts.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling or evolving product engineering pods.
• Background in B2B or enterprise software.
• Experience with data-rich, workflow-heavy, or real-time products.
• Familiarity with event-driven systems or complex integrations.

Life at TRM

We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day. TRM runs fast. Really fast. We’re a high-velocity, high-ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and direct feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days. That pace isn’t for everyone. If you are optimizing primarily for consistent work-life balance, use the interview process to pressure-test fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.

AI Fluency at TRM

AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM. We believe AI meaningfully changes how top performers operate. We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks. At TRM, AI fluency means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to:

• Accelerate repeatable workflows
• Structure and solve problems
• Improve output quality
• Increase speed and leverage

Lifecycle

The impact you will have This work has real stakes. Depending on your role at TRM, your week might look like:

• Driving critical investigations that can’t wait for typical business hours.
• Shipping products in days when others would schedule quarters.
• Pricing with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding.
• Building new solutions from first principles when the playbook doesn’t yet exist.
• Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks.

Company Values

We hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions.

• 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. Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end-to-end, and invest in getting better everyday. Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one-team mindset – giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.

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