The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising. Handling over 1 trillion queries per day, our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration. We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Do you have a passion for solving hard problems at scale? Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally- connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem? Come and see why Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small- to medium-sized workplaces globally.

The Team

The Service Core team is responsible for continuously improving the backend architecture and infrastructure of our applications that power our core business. This includes thinking about diverse set of stakeholders – end users, who care about speed and reliability; engineers, for whom the team tries to deliver the best development experience and remove any red tape; and lastly, long term business needs, where the team needs to stay few steps ahead to ensure long terms performance and scalability of our web platform

What you will do

· Help transition business-critical features from REST Api to services powered by GraphQL

· Work on backend infrastructure projects that serve as the backbone for our core platform that our clients interact with

· Own your projects end-to-end. You will participate actively in all aspects of designing, building, and delivering products

· Think of how to deliver better developer experience

· Collaborate with the rest of the Experiences team to understand the long-term requirements and goals

Desired Skills and Capabilities

We are looking for engineers with the following skill sets, experience, and passions. 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

· Strong understanding and experience of C# and .NET Core

· Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications

· Passion for learning and experimenting with innovative approaches to solving large scale problems

· Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems

· Experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA)

· Understanding and experience with building CI/CD and build pipelines is a big plus

· Understanding and experience with GraphQL is a plus

Variety of technical opportunity 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 don't need engineers who know all the answers; we need engineers who can invent the answers no one has thought of yet, to the questions yet to be asked.  

The Trade Desk does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.