Senior Front-End Engineer - Front-End Fundamentals

The Trade Desk • Boulder, CO

2d • $124,900 - $220,000

About The Position

The Trade Desk’s Front-End Fundamentals team owns the framework and high-level architecture patterns used by feature teams to deliver complex, data-rich user interfaces for internal users and external clients. The team works with product management, design, and UX research, and across the stack, to create simple interfaces for the company’s advertising platform and surface insights from large-scale data pipelines.

The Senior Front-End Engineer will own software delivery from design through production, implement and maintain product features, and drive complex changes spanning components or services. The role includes building reusable components and processes, ensuring quality through tests and monitoring, collaborating across teams, and using data to evaluate operational impact. The engineer will work in a distributed team and system environment, help clarify ambiguous projects, mentor others, and participate in hiring.

The successful candidate is a user-focused engineer with strong front-end fundamentals and substantial experience delivering front-end software. They communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, collaborate across time zones, and are motivated to learn, improve, and contribute to an inclusive team. The role may also involve server-side technologies.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and delivering front-end software.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals.
• Deep experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and browser APIs.
• Passion for building beautiful and seamless user interfaces.
• Desire to advance the state of the art of technology.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfort working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and potentially multiple continents.
• Experience building enterprise-level services.
• Credentials or solid experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with server-side technologies such as SQL and GQL, and possibly C#, Java, or NodeJS.

Responsibilities

• Own software delivery through the full lifecycle, from design and build through deployment to production.
• Drive complex changes involving multiple components or services.
• Ensure quality through automated tests, metrics, monitoring, and manual validation.
• Collaborate with teammates and stakeholders from other teams and departments.
• Deploy AI thoughtfully throughout the software development process.
• Build execution plans using user data, observations, market insight, and product roadmaps.
• Implement and maintain product features.
• Build components and processes that are regularly used by others.
• Work in a distributed team and distributed system environment.
• Understand the business objectives behind the code.
• Develop understanding of system architecture fundamentals through self-directed learning.
• Create clarity out of ambiguity while joining or leading complex projects.
• Lead by example, mentor, and teach others.
• Participate in hiring to grow the team.
• Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of work on operational efficiency.
• Welcome differing ideas and foster common ground and visible and invisible dimensions of diversity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Well-being benefits.
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses.
• Parental leave.
• Sick time accrued at 1 hour per 30 hours worked.
• Vacation time for full-time employees: up to 120 hours through the first year and 160 hours thereafter.
• Around 13 paid holidays per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering the ability to purchase company stock at a discount.
• Potential eligibility for stock-based compensation grants based on company and individual performance.
• Role-dependent variable compensation-based incentives and commissions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior