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 are making sure that we have 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.
Team overview:
The Inventory Marketplace team is dedicated to facilitating seamless transactions between buyers and sellers in our marketplace. Our focus is on simplifying the processes of negotiation, configuration, and execution of deals while gaining insights into the dynamic relationships between market participants. Our goal is to enhance these dynamics to create a more transparent and efficient marketplace. The team works on optimizing existing market models, developing new market types, and empowering clients to make informed inventory decisions, expressing these decisions with maximum efficiency.
Why join the Inventory Marketplace team:
- Impactful work: This team offers significant opportunities to influence our business's trajectory. You will work with large datasets, including analyzing 15 million ad impressions per second and diverse user data, allowing you to make data-driven decisions.
- Horizontal team dynamics: As a horizontal team, we interact with every product offered by our company, engaging with a wide variety of tech stacks. This provides a unique opportunity to gain exposure to different technologies and business aspects.
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration: You will collaborate with a wide range of professionals, including engineers, data scientists, product managers, support teams, client-facing teams, data partnerships, the inventory team, and FP&A. Your work will have a direct impact across almost every organization within the company.
Who will thrive on the Inventory Marketplace team:
- Business-oriented technologists: If you are passionate about understanding the business side of technology and enjoy exploring how tech solutions can transform market dynamics, this team is a great fit for you.
- Innovative thinkers: We value a culture of experimentation and learning. If you are comfortable with testing ideas, learning from them, and adapting quickly to find optimal solutions, you will thrive in our dynamic environment.
Who might not enjoy working here:
- Pure technicians: If your primary interest lies solely in technical challenges without a business context, this team might not align with your interests. Our focus is on leveraging technology to drive business outcomes.
- Individuals seeking stability: If you prefer a stable environment where plans rarely change, the iterative and experimental nature of our team may not suit you. We value flexibility and the willingness to explore new paths as we innovate.
What you’ll do:
Within the charter of the team, some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:
- Design, build, deliver, and own full lifecycle development software from inception to production
- Drive complex changes involving multiple components and stacks
- Deliver quality changes, including automated tests, metrics, and monitoring
- Collaborate with team members from multiple teams
- Collaborate with business stakeholders from multiple disciplines
- Guide and review changes to product features in line with product roadmaps
- 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 and guided learning
- Lead others through example, mentorship, teaching, and/or participate in hiring activities
Who you are:
Our culture is much deeper than just having fun together (though we do that well, too). We take pride in our engineers being trust-builders, generous givers, scrappy problem solvers, and gritty pursuers of excellence. You do not have to meet all the requirements below, but we believe that people who meet most of them will have a higher likelihood of succeeding in this role:
- You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
- You can communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences
- You have a solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals
- You have experience working with distributed systems
- You are passionate about the “why” behind what you’re doing, not just about the challenge it represents
- You have 2+ 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. Not everyone has the same level of access to opportunities. 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
- Although no specific programming language is required – you should be proficient in at least one language with similar syntax to C#, C/C++, Java, Scala or Python
- You have some knowledge of software development code editors: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider, and version control systems (Git, Perforce)
- You have additional nice-to-have experience in the following areas: database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, Aerospike, Vertica, Redis), building micro-services, operating systems and cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka, EMR
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. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. 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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Last updated on Aug 21, 2024