Senior Software Engineer - Decisioning Workflows

The Trade Desk•New York, NY

About The Position

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. 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.

Requirements

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)
Sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
Deep understanding of the 'why' behind what you are doing.
Understanding of engineering fundamentals.
Ability to work from first principles to evaluate solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.
Broadly skilled Technical Lead accustomed to developing web services.
Experience building always-on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers.
Product-focused mindset.
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.
Work with confidence and without ego.
Deep knowledge and exercise a high degree of leadership in their daily work.
Strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right.
Adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to walk through fire to support your fellow teammates.
Value, seek out, and foster diversity.
Ability to learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job.
Ability to invent answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, Aliyun, .NET Core, Java, Scala, SQL Server, GraphQL.
Experience with C#, Python, Databricks, SQL Server, and agentic programming.

Responsibilities

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.
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.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Well-being benefits
Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
Parental leave
Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
Around 13 paid holidays per year
Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Competitive benefits package