Lead Software Engineer - Markets

Position: Lead Staff Software Engineer - Markets
Location: New York

This job is with The Trade Desk, an inclusive employer and a member of my Gwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

What We Do

Our Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who have the opportunity to participate in many aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders.

At The Trade Desk, we believe in building the backend infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality ther we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently.

Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do.

What You’ll Do

Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:

Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle development software from inception to production

Demonstrate a firm grasp of the entire software development lifecycle

Drive complex changes involving multiple components

Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring

Collaborate with team members to deliver features

Guide and review changes to product features in line with product roadmaps

Implement and maintain product features

Build components and processes that are regularly used by others

Build execution plans incorporating user data, observations, and market insight

Validate changes to ensure high quality product releases

Work in a distributed system environment

Understand the business objectives behind the code

Understand system architecture fundamentals through self-directed learning

Participate in and lead projects with a high level of technical ambiguity

Contribute to development of comprehensive success criteria

Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching

Participate in hiring activities

Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency

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 be well-versed in building from common ground to value, seek out, and foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity.

Who You Are

Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:

You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.

You are able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.

You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.

You have experiences working…