Lead Senior Software Engineer - Decisioning Workflows Team

What we do:

The team is responsible for driving recommendations and insights across the platform. The team has delivered key forecast metrics such as Forecasted Spend, Decision Power, and Relevance. Users not only want to view forecast metrics, they also require actionable recommendations and insights. To achieve this goal, the team is composed of data scientists, backend engineers, and frontend engineers. The team collaborates closely with users of the platform. Day to day, the team solves problems at the intersection of data science, scalable systems, and product design. Some of the technologies it uses are C#, Python, Databricks, SQL Server, and agentic programming.

• You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering products for our clients.
• Develop with a variety of platforms and technologies, such Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, .NET Core, Java, Scala, SQL Server, GraphQL.
• Participate in design reviews and proof of concepts.
• Contribute to solution design in line with our overall technical roadmap and industry best practices.
• We have dozens of individual, mission-focused teams working across a wide spectrum of technological challenges.

You will have the opportunity, depending on your interests and aptitude, to work on large-scale distributed systems coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces – to name a few.

What you'll do to help us deliver on our mission:

• Commercial development skills in OO programming (C#, Java or C++) and design
• Cloud-based platform experience (AWS, Azure or Aliyun)
• Excellent understanding of Agile development methodology and development practices
• Experience in Agile Scrum tools (such as Jira)
• Understanding of designing web-based, service-oriented applications and integrated back-office systems
• Experience in distributed source control system (such as Git)

We are a global team with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. To complement this team, you will welcome ideas that are different from your own, and work to build from common ground—valuing and fostering both visible and invisible dimensions of diversity.

Who we’re looking for:

• You have a sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
• You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing.
• You understand engineering fundamentals.
• At our scale, many off-the-shelf techniques and existing technologies (open source and enterprise) simply don't work.
• You are able to work from first principles to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique
• You are a broadly skilled Technical Lead accustomed to developing web services.
• You have experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers.
• You have a product-focused mindset.
• You have the passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and push forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.
• You work with confidence and without ego.
• Our Senior Engineers have deep knowledge and exercise a high degree of leadership in their daily
• You have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right.
• You are also adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates.
• You value, seek out, and foster diversity.

Variety of technical opportunity is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. We don't need engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked.  

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

#LI-AD