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About The Company
The Trade Desk is a leading global technology company and the world’s premier independent platform for digital advertising. With nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices worldwide, the company specializes in providing innovative solutions that enable advertisers to reach their target audiences effectively across the open internet. Their platform facilitates advertising across various channels, including streaming TV, podcasts, mobile applications, news outlets, and more. The Trade Desk is committed to promoting transparency, effectiveness, and responsibility in advertising, supporting trusted journalism, high-quality entertainment, and creators globally. The company's technological infrastructure handles massive datasets in real-time, ensuring reliable operation at a global scale. This environment fosters diversity, curiosity, and collaborative learning, offering employees the opportunity to work on impactful, large-scale distributed systems and cutting-edge data challenges.
About The Role
The Trade Desk is seeking a talented and experienced Staff Backend Engineer to join the SCORE team based in our London office. This role involves technical leadership in designing, building, and maintaining backend systems that support a high-traffic web and data platform. As a key technical authority, you will influence the system architecture, ensure operational excellence, and drive modernization efforts. You will act as a mentor and reviewer for engineering peers, fostering a culture of high standards and continuous improvement. The role offers a unique opportunity to work on complex, large-scale systems that process petabyte-scale data, support AI agent infrastructure, and deliver real-time campaign metrics. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align on standards, improve system reliability, and shape the future direction of core platform components. This position provides a pathway into people management, with responsibilities to lead and develop engineering talent as the team grows.
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Qualifications
- Extensive experience building and operating backend systems for large-scale web or data platforms
- Proficiency in backend programming languages such as C#/.NET (preferred) or equivalent
- Strong understanding of SQL and database management
- Experience designing and building GraphQL and/or REST APIs
- Background in reporting or scheduled-reporting systems
- Experience with AI or agentic system development is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
- Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Interest and experience in mentoring, guiding, or leading engineering teams
- Desire to develop into a people management role over time
- Ability to prioritize, scope, and execute complex technical projects
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership by designing, building, and operating backend systems for a high-traffic, data-intensive platform
- Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring high standards and best practices across the engineering team
- Drive the technical strategy for cross-cutting, ambiguous problems, balancing reliability, performance, and delivery speed
- Collaborate with other teams and platform governance groups to establish and uphold shared standards and practices
- Mentor and develop junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Manage the onboarding and growth of a senior engineer, with a future pathway to leading larger teams
- Represent the team’s technical needs and staffing requirements in cross-functional planning sessions
- Take ownership of production systems, ensuring operational health, performance, and reliability
- Contribute to modernization initiatives, including infrastructure improvements and system upgrades
- Support development of AI infrastructure, including data scanning, caching, and agentic use cases
- Partner with stakeholders to communicate technical trade-offs and project progress effectively
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Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Work on innovative, large-scale technological challenges
- Flexible working arrangements and support for work-life balance
- Participation in global projects impacting the digital advertising landscape
Equal Opportunity
The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We value diversity and are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We believe that a diverse team fosters innovation and drives success, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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