Lead Staff Software Engineer

3 days ago

London, UK, United Kingdom myGwork Full time

This inclusive employer is a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

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 Lead Staff Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who will participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. 

At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. This means that based on your interests and background, you will have the opportunity to work on large-scale, distributed systems, for example, 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.

Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. It’s important that we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long-term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously improving efficiency.

What you’ll do:

It’s the best of both worlds—you'll get a chance to exercise your technical leadership and build up your people management and leadership skills. Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission includes the following:

Technical leadership

  • Actively review design and code.
  • Deliver meaningful technical and hands-on contributions to the team's objectives.
  • Understand strategic business priorities and communicate with the team on how their work fits into the roadmap.

Project level processes and execution

  • Collaborate with the PM (product management) team to develop the roadmap and MVP plans.
  • Develop execution plans (resources, milestones, and timelines) for the roadmaps.
  • Continuously analyze and optimize team efficiency.
  • Establish and deliver on team commitments.
  • Measure and maintain/improve the quality of the team's contributions.
  • Communicate important developments and changes to area leadership and other stakeholders.

People management

  • Manage a small team. (no more then 4 people max, but start with less)
  • Help team members develop career growth plans.
  • Give regular and effective feedback.
  • Hold weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports.
  • Annual reviews and compensation recommendations.

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 have a solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), DevOps, and agile methodologies.
  • You have a solid understanding of cloud computing.
  • You have a solid understanding of design patterns and software architecture design patterns.
  • You have experience in contributing to professional growth of software engineers.
  • You have experience in providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams.
  • You have experience in leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity.
  • You have a proven track record of effectively growing multiple senior engineers and tech leads.
  • You have experience in driving major, strategic, company-wide initiatives with significant risk.
  • You have experience in hiring and conducting interviews.
  • You are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, Scala, Typescript/JavaScript.
  • You have 1+ years of experience directly managing people.

A variety of technical opportunities 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 are not seeking engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and find answers 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.

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