Senior Front End Software Engineer - Deal Desk

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, seeking a Senior Front End Software Engineer to design, build, and deliver data-focused products. The role involves collaborating with team members, guiding product features, and ensuring high-quality product releases while working in a distributed system environment.

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:

• You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
• You are able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences
• You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals
• You are passionate about building beautiful and seamless user interfaces
• You have love for, and desire to advance, the state of the art of technology
• You are proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript
• You have experience building enterprise level services
• You have 7+ years of software development engineering experience
• You have a Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience
• You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas: languages/technology on the server-side (C#, Java, NodeJS, SQL), knowledge of front-end frameworks (React/Redux)