Senior Front End Software Engineer - Application Development

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the worlds leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing therightdatatothe people who need it, our platforms empower our partnerstodevelop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

Palantir Foundry is an end-to-end platform for data-driven decision-making. We're transforming the way organizations securely integrate their data, so they can then build reliable, critical applications atop that unified foundation. Our customers use Foundry to perform rich analyses that drive core operations within their organizations. They can also build sophisticated, full-fledged programs, such as common operating pictures, alert-triaging inboxes, and resource allocation planning tools driven by rich-ML models.

As a Senior Front End Software Engineer focused on application development in Foundry, youwillbe responsible for crafting the tools used by thousands of users to build the sophisticated applications that power their businesses. Youwillbe architecting and developing interfaces, state management and access patternstosupportdata-intensive workflows that are both powerful and approachable. You may spend one day interviewing userstobetter understand their needs and identifying product gapstoimprove. The next day, you might find yourself considering that customer context alongwithsignal gathered from other customers in different industries, brainstorming approaches to handling intricate UX needswithyour teammates.

Youll regularly be facedwithsophisticated technical problems, requiring youtoscope out the solution design and finding an incremental pathtoshipping the new features. Aspartof this, youwillown APIs and schemas that power your frontend code, orworkwithother backend engineers in developing them together.

We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering both customer app builders and end-users to do theirworkoptimally. Below are some examples of the types of productworkyoud gettodo in this role:

Core Responsiblities

• Leading and mentoring within our community of engineers and building shared frontend tooling to enable teams across Foundry
• Architecting and building forhigh-scale data intensive APIs (example)
• Developing interactive workflow UIs
• Building products which aimtomake technical concepts accessible for non-technical users
• Creating low-code/no-code WYSIWYG tools, which enable application builders within Foundry to build products for their users
• Building the user experience for our next generation of pro-code tools to enable developers to build on top of Foundry
• Engagingwithsignaldirectlyfrom our forward deployed engineers and deployment strategiststorapidly evolve our producttomeet real world requirements.

Technologies We Use

• Typescript, React, and GQL are centraltoour frontend development.
• Blueprint as a re-usable front end component library.
• A combination of open-source andinternaltechnologies that suit the problems at hand.
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Webpack, GitHub, and CircleCI.

What We Value

• Passion for improving user workflows and building user interfaces that enable userstotackle their problems, while still maintaining engineering quality.
• Abilitytoworkcollaboratively in teams of technical and non-technical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people whowilluse what you're building.
• Skill and comfortworkingin a constantly evolving environmentwithdynamic objectives and iterationwithusers.
• Experience brainstorming and iteratingwithproduct designers.
• Experience buildinghigh-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD development environment.
• Proven abilitytolearncontinuously,workindependently, and make decisionswithminimalsupervision.
• Abilitytolearnnew technology and concepts, even without in-depth experience.
• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingnesstoobtain a US Security clearance is beneficial, but not necessary.

What WeRequire

• 4+yearsof frontend software engineering experience.
• Experience crafting complex user experiences (UX)witha strong intuition for good design and usability.
• Experienceworkingwithdesign systems such as Blueprint, Material-UI, or similar.
• Strong frontend coding skills usedtowrite clean, effective code, regardless of framework, and existing proficiency in JavaScript and understanding of how web technologies work.
• Familiaritywithdata structures, loading patterns, frontend frameworks, and other technical tools and concepts.
• Proficiencywithprogramming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.