Senior Front-End Engineer - Front-End Fundamentals

What you'll do

Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:

• Own software delivery through the whole lifecycle: Design, build, and deploy software from inception to production
• Drive complex changes involving multiple components or services
• Ensure quality using 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 incorporating user data, observations, market insight, and product roadmaps
• Implement and maintain product features
• Build components and processes that are regularly used by others
• Work on a distributed team and in a distributed system environment
• Understand the business objectives behind the code
• Understand system architecture fundamentals through self-directed learning
• Create clarity out of ambiguity as you join or lead complex projects
• Lead others through example, mentorship, and teaching
• Participate in hiring to grow the team
• Use data to analyze and communicate the impact of your work on operational efficiency

Additional information

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

We have a lot of fun together (especially on this team), but our culture is much deeper than that. Our UI engineers are passionate advocates for our users, both internal and external. We build trust by supporting each other generously; we approach problems with scrappy determination; and we pursue excellence unfailingly even when- especially when-it's not the easy path. Oh, and we laugh a lot. We take the work seriously, but not ourselves.

No list of requirements can capture the unique contribution of each individual team member. But we think that for a successful candidate, most of these will be true:

• You have 7+ years of experience building and delivering front-end software.
• You have a solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals.
• You have deep experience in in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and browser APIs
• 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 can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones-and sometimes multiple continents.
• You have experience building enterprise level services.
• You have credentials or solid experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in computer science. (Not every has the same educational opportunities; we look more at what you bring to the table than any specific degree.)
• You might even have some experience in server-side technologies: SQL and GQL, and maybe also C#, Java, or NodeJS.

Additional information

There is no typical day at The Trade Desk or on this team, so we rely much more on your personal qualities and track record than on your experience with any single technology. We care about your attitude when approaching problems; your drive to learn and improve; your openness and generosity when you collaborate.

In accordance with various US state laws, the range provided is the Trade Desk's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and location.

All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance. The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions.

Plus, expected benefits for this role include 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, and 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.

Pay and benefits

The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package. Click here to

Note: Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave

At the Trade Desk, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $124,900 - $220,000 USD

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