The Trade Desk
digital advertising
SoftwareEngineerII
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“Software Engineer II at The Trade Desk. Skills: Software development, Distributed systems, Programming languages. Design, build, deliver and own full lifecycle development software. Demonstrate grasp of software development lifecycle”
Industry & Context.
Solve meaningful challenges; Scrappy problem solvers; Find solutions to complex problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of software development, engineering experience, Bachelor’s/Master’s level degree in a computer-science or relevant engineering related field or equivalent experience, Solid understanding of computer science and engineering fundamentals, Experiences working with distributed systems, Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala, Knowledge of software development code editors: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Rider, Knowledge of version control systems: Git, Perforce
Nice to Have
Database engines (Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, AeroSpike, Vertica, Redis), Building micro-services, Operating systems and cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka
What You'll Do.
deliver and own full lifecycle development software
Demonstrate grasp of software development lifecycle
Drive complex changes involving multiple components
Deliver quality changes
Implement and maintain product features
Validate changes for high quality releases
Work in a distributed system environment
Understand business objectives
Understand system architecture fundamentals
Lead others through example
Participate in hiring activities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with team members to deliver features; Guide and review changes to product features; Work in a distributed system environment; Welcome ideas different from your own; Build from common ground; Foster invisible and visible dimensions of diversity
Communication Scope
Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
Full Job Description
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising, with nearly 4,000 employees across more than 30 offices. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet — from streaming TV and podcasts to mobile apps, news, and more. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you. 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 back-end infrastructure of our platform with a focus on quality at scale. This means whether we are building parts of our client-facing applications, internal custom solutions for our own team members, or model pipelines for bidding optimisations, we are making sure that we have infrastructure, development, and tools to do it right and efficiently. Our system performs all day, every day serving global traffic. We build a distributed system in a highly collaborative environment, utilising a broad range of technologies. Our back-end developers work on finding solutions to algorithmic, optimization and scale challenges in everything we do. What you’ll do: Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is: Design, build, de
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