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About the Role

The SCORE team is seeking a Staff-level engineer to own the backend health, performance, and reliability of core platform components, including high-scale APIs and reporting systems. This role serves as a deliberate growth track into people management, where you will initially focus on technical leadership and mentoring before transitioning to managing a growing engineering team in London.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems supporting a high-traffic web and data platform.
• Act as a technical reviewer and mentor in design and code reviews.
• Drive technical direction on ambiguous, cross-cutting problems balancing reliability, performance, and delivery speed.
• Partner with adjacent teams and platform governance groups to align on shared standards.
• Manage a senior engineer with a path to leading a larger engineering team.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, own performance and growth conversations, and participate in hiring.
• Represent team technical direction and staffing needs in cross-functional planning.

Requirements

• Operate at a Staff engineer level as a recognized technical authority.
• Hands-on experience building and operating backend systems for a web or data platform of meaningful scale.
• Actively seeking a path into people management with prior experience mentoring, leading, or informally guiding engineers.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguity, scoping, and driving execution on complex backend problems.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to taking ownership of production systems.

Skills

• Backend systems architecture
• Technical leadership
• People management
• Mentoring
• C#/.NET
• SQL
• GraphQL
• REST APIs
• Reporting systems
• AI/Agentic systems

Location

• London, UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Staff-level

About the Company

• Global technology company and leading independent platform for digital advertising.
• Nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices.
• Technology helps advertisers reach audiences across the open internet including streaming TV, podcasts, mobile apps, and news.

Equal Opportunity

• The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer.
• Employment is based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.
• Does 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 law.
• Committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience and providing accommodations for accessibility needs.