Senior SWE – Front End – Budget Specialization

Who we are: 

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 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.  

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  

• 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  

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. 

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