The Trade Desk - A Global Technology Company
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, their platform operates at an unprecedented scale. The company has built an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration, valuing the unique experiences and perspectives of each employee.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle development software from inception to production
- Own and drive large initiatives, including planning and organizing work
- Drive complex changes involving multiple components
- Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring
- Collaborate with team members to deliver features
- Develop 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
- Lead projects with a high level of technical ambiguity
- Contribute to development of comprehensive success criteria
- Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching, and/or participate in hiring activities
- Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency
Requirements
- 11+ years of software development engineering experience
- 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
- Experience working with distributed systems
- Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala
- Some knowledge of software development code editors (Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider) and version control systems (Git, Perforce)
- Track record of leading and completing projects with a high level of technical ambiguity and contributing to professional growth of peers
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 and vacation time for full-time employees
- Around 13 paid holidays per year
- Employee stock ownership opportunities