Software Engineer II
The Trade Desk
| Company | The Trade Desk |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Madrid |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 24 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. 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. 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 back-end infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. This means whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimisations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently.
Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilising a broad range of technologies. Our back-end 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
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
Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching, and/or participate in hiring activities
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 you comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and c
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