Lead Sr Staff Software Engineer - Front End Fundamentals
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About the role
The Desk Fundamentals team sits within the Core Workflows engineering organization and owns the platform UI framework that the rest of our buying-side engineering teams build on top of. Our mission is straightforward but demanding: deliver consistent experiences, logical navigation, and user-friendly page components at platform scale. We own the shared design patterns and frontend frameworks that empower other teams to ship features quickly and reliably. We build and evolve the Portfolio Views that give traders clarity into performance across partners and advertisers. We maintain the Programmatic Table — one of the highest-traffic surfaces on the platform — and we are the team that sets the bar for what quality looks like across The Trade Desk's core product. 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
What you'll bring
- 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 have a solid understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), DevOps, and agile methodologies.
- You have a solid understanding of cloud computing and the trade-offs of large-scale, distributed web applications.
- You have a solid understanding of design patterns and software architecture, including frontend systems design and component-based architectures.
- You have experience contributing to the professional growth of software engineers, and a proven track record of growing multiple senior engineers and tech leads.
- You have experience providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams, including platform or framework work where your team's decisions directly affect the velocity and quality of teams outside your own.
- You have experience leading and completing projects with a high degree of technical ambiguity.
- You have experience driving major, strategic, company-wide initiatives with significant risk.
- You have experience hiring and conducting interviews.
- You are proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, C#, Java, C, C++, Python, SQL, or Scala.