Senior Front End Software Engineer - Data Marketplace Experiences

Lead Senior Software Engineer

Our lead senior software engineers are end-to-end owners who will participate in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products for our stakeholders. At The Trade Desk, we believe that each opportunity to engage with all internal and external stakeholders is unique. This means that based on your interests and background, you will have the opportunity to work on large-scale, distributed systems, for example, coordinating thousands of servers in cloud and physical data centers around the world, petabyte-scale data challenges, machine learning, advanced visualizations, and interactive user interfaces, to name a few. Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. It's important that we focus on quality at scale in an agile environment based on collaboration, ownership, and trust. Our software engineering teams fully own their charter to work on long-term roadmaps while enhancing existing features or tools and continuously improving efficiency.

It's the best of both worlds-you'll get a chance to exercise your technical leadership and build up your people management and leadership skills. Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission includes the following:

• Technical leadership: Actively review design and code. Deliver meaningful technical and hands-on contributions to the team's objectives. Understand strategic business priorities and communicate with the team on how their work fits into the roadmap.
• Project level processes and execution: Collaborate with the PM (product management) team to develop the roadmap and MVP plans. Develop execution plans (resources, milestones, and timelines) for the roadmaps. Continuously analyze and optimize team efficiency. Establish and deliver on team commitments. Measure and maintain/improve the quality of the team's contributions. Communicate important developments and changes to area leadership and other stakeholders.
• People management: Manage a small team. Help team members develop career growth plans. Give regular and effective feedback. Hold weekly 1:1 meetings with direct reports. Annual reviews and compensation recommendations.

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.

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 have technical leadership experience.
• You have a solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), DevOps, and agile methodologies.
• You have a solid understanding of cloud computing.
• You have a solid understanding of design patterns and software architecture design patterns.
• You have experience in effective contribution across a wide variety of technologies and/or functional areas within their broader area.
• You have experience in contributing to professional growth of software engineers.
• You have experience in providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams.
• You are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, Scala, Typescript/JavaScript.
• You have 7+ years of software development engineering experience.