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The Trade Desk

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

The Trade Desk, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 80301


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, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have built an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally-connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

What we do: 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 in building the backend infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. Whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimizations, we ensure that we have the infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently.

Our system performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilizing a broad range of technologies. Our backend developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization, and scale challenges in everything we do.

What you will do:

Develop, enhance, and optimize internal tools, processes, and services that power our business teams.

Drive complex changes involving multiple components, both frontend and backend.

Maintain and enhance the reliability and scalability of solutions that align with compliance standards.

Leverage data to analyze opportunities and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency.

Build trust and partnerships with stakeholder teams.

Review code from your peers and grow others through example, mentorship, and teaching.

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.

Who you are:

You care deeply about improving the experience, tools, and processes of your business team colleagues.

You drive innovative solutions while being sensitive to the current needs and realities of stakeholders.

You can turn technically ambiguous requirements into concrete and thorough designs and execution plans.

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. What is most important to us is what and how you can contribute, which is why our consideration is not limited by the level of education you have.

You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas:

Proficiency with C#, Typescript, and React

Experience working in large codebases, organizing and refactoring

Experience with GraphQL and SQL

A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer, which is why we do not expect you to know every technology we use when you start. What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job. We are not seeking engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent answers no one has thought of yet and find answers to the questions yet to be asked.

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