Lead Staff Software Engineer, Front End - Deal Manager Experiences

Responsibilities

• It's the best of both worlds-you'll get a chance to exercise your technical leadership and build up your people management and leadership skills. Some of the work that you will be doing to help us deliver on our mission is:
• 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 with the team on how their 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 the 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.
• Annual reviews and compensation recommendations.
• 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.

Requirements

• You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
• You are able to communicate effectively across both 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 in contributing to professional growth of software engineers.
• You have experience in providing technical and project leadership of initiatives involving multiple teams

Additional Information

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 Lead Staff 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 that each opportunity to engage with consumers is unique. User experience can make or break our business. This means our users must have all the flexibility 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 performs every day, 24/7, serving global traffic. We deliver features to improve our clients' abilities to make real-time decisions and troubleshoot campaigns with simple-to-use interfaces and high-performance data interactions. To improve our users' day-to-day lives, we collaborate closely with user experience and product management organizations to ensure consistent, modern designs as well as the right balance of requirements. Our frontend developers work up and down the stack (client to server) to deliver these world-class experiences.

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