Front End Engineer II - Reporting
About The Position
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. 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.
Requirements
- Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
- Able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals.
- Passionate about building beautiful and seamless user interfaces.
- Proficient in React and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience building enterprise level services.
- 2-4 years of software development engineering experience.
- Bachelor's/Master's level degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Additional nice-to-have experience in languages/technology on the server-side (C#, Java, NodeJS, SQL)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle development software from inception to production
- Drive complex changes involving multiple components
- Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring
- Collaborate with a geographically distributed team 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
- Validate changes to ensure high quality product releases
- Understand the business objectives behind the code
- Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency
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 also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
