Senior / Staff Solutions Architect/Engineer, The Trade Desk
$121.5-222.8k
Salary applicable for candidates based in NY, CO, CA & WA only
Office located in San Jose, Ca
Data-first media buying platform
Job no longer available
Data-first media buying platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$121.5-222.8k
Salary applicable for candidates based in NY, CO, CA & WA only
Office located in San Jose, Ca
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform media for the benefit of humankind by helping brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and setting a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7+ years of work experience as either a Software Engineer or a hands-on Architect in a technology-focused company
- Strong software engineering background with experience in writing software in a variety of programming languages (Python needed), developing backend systems, web-based UIs, and web services using relational databases (such as SQL Server, Postgres, etc.) or data warehouses (such as Vertica, Snowflake, etc.)
- Strong record of accomplishment using modern application architectures such as Microservices, SOA, or Event-driven architecture
- 3+ years’ experience in building and deploying cloud-native applications in AWS
- Demonstrable creative thinking and problem-solving abilities, a passion for problem-solving and learning innovative technologies quickly
- Solid communication skills to interact with and influence some of our largest clients
- Success working with clients directly, demonstrating an inquisitive mindset to deeply understand their business challenges and the opportunities that we can help unlock by mapping to custom-built features and functions
- Understanding of big data platforms and data engineering is a plus
- Experience with a formal project management method or managing projects is a plus
- Experience working with clients, product, and engineering teams in a pre-sales role or consultative experience is a plus
- Experience with Azure and GCP is a plus
- You have a sustained record of accomplishment making significant, self-directed, full-stack contributions to large and impactful software projects. You think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing and support your stakeholders and customers to utilize your work to the fullest extent possible
- You are a broadly skilled engineer/architect, accustomed to developing software applications and web services. You have experience building always on systems, working across a variety of technologies and service layers. You are familiar with REST, batch, polling and microservice approaches and have proficiency in creating cloud-native solutions using platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
- You have a customer-value and product-focused mindset. You have the passion and ability to discover our clients’ unique needs and business goals. You help partner with both internal and external teams to help achieve customer goals by delivering effective data-driven custom solutions
- You have solid business acumen. You can credibly translate technical concepts to business value for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You work with confidence and without ego. You are adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to volunteer to share your knowledge and expertise to support your fellow teammates
- You value, seek out, and foster diversity. You welcome ideas that are different from your own and are skilled at finding and building from common ground
- You are a creative thinker, not bound by the status quo. What you know is less important than how well you learn and innovate. You know you do not know it all, but you are confident that you can invent the answers no one has thought of yet and are comfortable blazing the unknown
What the job involves
- The Senior Solutions Architect will design and build software solutions for our partners and clients across our spectrum of custom solution services
- You will be a full-stack owner. You will interact with some of the largest advertising agents and brands in the world to understand their requirements and business goals. Based on their business goals and requirements, you will design, build, and deploy software solutions to achieve those goals
- You will manage projects of varying complexity and duration where you will communicate advanced engineering concepts to both technical and non-technical clients, plan tasks, set timelines, manage, and update stakeholders, resolve blockers, and drive the delivery forward
- You will monitor and manage custom solutions, debug application-related issues and degradation, and implement ongoing mitigations
- You will help in building our team through a combination of mentorship, technical leadership, knowledge sharing with a constant focus on raising the bar
- You will leverage your background and experience to develop best practices that are scalable and repeatable, and advocate for them within the global Solutions Architect team
- You will use your business acumen to credibly translate technical concepts to business value, to quickly understand the clients' needs, to build trust and confidence with clients, and to influence non-technical stakeholders
- You will apply your knowledge of SDLC and Agile practices to maximize customer and partner value in the fewest steps possible, while maintaining quality, in a controlled manner
- You will use your presentation and communication skills to build strong cross functional partnerships, with clients, business, engineering, and partners representing all aspects of the business with their own priorities and opinions
Our take
Effective advertising in the digital age is almost impossible without the use of data to drive targeting, with first-party data commonly being used for such purposes. However, making use of such data can be difficult without the right analytic tools, and executing advertisement campaigns that make use of it can be even more challenging.
The Trade Desk provides a demand-side marketplace for building digital media campaigns, allowing businesses to plan and buy digital media, harness the power of their data, and customize publishing through APIs. The marketplace partners with over 225 data, inventory, brand safety, and publisher businesses to provide its services, whilst offering expert digital marketing advice and an e-learning platform called Edge Academy.
Whilst other advertisement marketplaces are available to businesses, The Trade Desk stands out with its approach of not only providing companies with the business partnerships they need but also advising and educating them on how to utilize them effectively. Its latest offering, Galileo, enables advertisers to onboard and activate their first-party data quickly and easily, bringing direct integrations with CRM, CDP and clean room providers, including Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Habu, InfoSum, LiveRamp, Salesforce and Snowflake.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2016
$60m
SERIES C
Feb 2014
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $82.5m
Company HQ
Downtown Ventura, Ventura, CA
Leadership
Jeff Green
(Founder & CEO)Founded Search.com. Former COO of Microsoft's AdECN.
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