Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

About The Trade Desk

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.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

10770 NE 8th Street, Suite 700, Bellevue, WA 98004

Telecommuting permitted: work may be performed within normal commuting distance from The Trade Desk, Inc. office in Bellevue, WA.

• Design system architectures and application components for internal web applications and services, including frontend and backend structures, API contracts, and database models, ensuring designs align with scalability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Implement and maintain internal web applications and services using languages such as C#, Type Script, and React, and frameworks such as .NET; develop REST/GraphQL APIs, database schemas (SQL), and service integrations following secure coding and data governance practices.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes for microservices and web applications, monitor releases, and resolve deployment issues.
• Develop and maintain automated tests, including unit, integration, and end-to-end test suites, ensuring test coverage and reliability through continuous integration and participate in code reviews to uphold quality standards.
• Analyze operational and product data (e.g., usage, performance, error metrics) to assess effectiveness of process improvements and automation initiatives, using insights to validate outcomes and inform future engineering priorities, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Collaborate directly with product and business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate ambiguous needs into technical designs, and deliver incremental, production-ready features.
• Own the full lifecycle of medium to large projects, including design, implementation, documentation, rollout, monitoring, and iterative improvement based on user feedback.
• Build AI‑assisted tools and automation in Python that use Large Language Models and Retrieval Augmented Generation to streamline routine tasks, improve employee productivity, and enhance internal tooling.

$212,202 – $274,700 per year

• Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and eight (8) years of experience in a related role.
• Eight years of experience with coding in a modern language.
• Five years of experience with full‑stack software design; and technical communication including writing design documents and system documentation, providing feedback to other engineers' documents and code, and giving project updates to stakeholders or project leaders.
• Four years of experience writing SQL.
• Three years of experience with software development lifecycle including version control, code review, and deployment.
• Two years of experience with programming in C#; programming in Python; and React.

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 such as variable compensation‑based incentives and commissions. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare (medical,…