About the position
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 that each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. User experience can make or break our business. This means our users must have all the flexibility to harness our system's growing power and present meaningful insight from the petabytes of data streaming through our platform with unparalleled ease. Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We deliver features to improve our clients' abilities to make real-time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple-to-use interfaces and high-performance data interactions. To improve our users' day-to-day lives, we collaborate closely with user experience and product management organizations to ensure consistent, modern designs as well as the right balance of requirements. Our frontend developers work up and down the stack (client to server) to deliver these world-class experiences.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Build components and processes that are regularly used by others
- Build execution plans incorporating user data, observations, and market insight
- 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
- Participate in and lead projects with a high level of technical ambiguity
- Contribute to development of comprehensive success criteria
- Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching
- Participate in hiring activities
- Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development engineering experience
- Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript
- Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals
- Experience building enterprise level services
- Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience
- Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
- Able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Passionate about building beautiful and seamless user interfaces
- Love for, and desire to advance, the state of the art of technology
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with languages/technology on the server-side (C#, Java, NodeJS, SQL)
- Knowledge of front-end frameworks (React/Redux)
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 purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk's Employee Stock Purchase Plan
