Overview What we do: Our Lead Staff Software Engineers are end-to-end owners who participate in 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 should enable our users 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 operates 24/7 to serve global traffic, delivering features to help clients make real-time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple interfaces and high-performance data interactions. We collaborate with user experience and product management to ensure consistent, modern designs and the right balance of requirements. Our frontend developers work across the stack to deliver world-class experiences. What you’ll do It’s the best of both worlds—you'll exercise technical leadership while developing people management and leadership skills. Here are the primary areas you will contribute to: 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 how the team’s 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 large initiatives and roadmaps. Drive complex changes involving multiple components. Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring. Collaborate with cross-functional team members to deliver features, including contributing to development of comprehensive success criteria. 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. Conduct annual reviews and compensation recommendations. We are a global team with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. You will welcome ideas different from your own and foster diversity. Who you are Our culture values engineers who are trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but you are more likely to succeed if you meet most of them: You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents. You communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals. You are passionate about building beautiful and seamless user interfaces. You have love for, and desire to advance, the state of the art of technology. You are proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript. You have experience building enterprise level services. You have experience contributing to the professional growth of software engineers. You have experience providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams. You have experience leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity. You have experience working with non-technical stakeholders. You have experience hiring and conducting interviews. You have 11+ years of software development engineering experience. You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a relevant engineering-related field, or equivalent experience. Our consideration is not limited by education level; what matters is your contribution. Nice-to-have: server-side languages/technologies (C#, Java, NodeJS, SQL) and front-end frameworks (React/Redux). A variety of technical opportunities is one of the best things about working at The Trade Desk as a software engineer. We value the ability to learn quickly and solve complex problems with the best tools. We seek engineers who can invent answers to questions not yet asked. Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement, or parental leave. Compensation and benefits At The Trade Desk, base salary is one part of a competitive total compensation package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $137,300—$251,800 USD. The actual amount may differ based on experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Employees may be eligible for stock-based compensation grants and other compensation depending on the role. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision) with premiums paid for employees and dependents, retirement benefits with a 401k plan and company match, disability coverage, life insurance, well-being benefits, tuition reimbursement, parental leave, sick time, generous vacation and holidays, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience. Please reach out to accommodations@ thetradedesk. com to request an accommodation or discuss accessibility needs. Include your preferred contact details and the nature of your accommodation request. Any information you share will be handled confidentially and will not impact hiring decisions. #J-18808-Ljbffr