Senior Front End Software Engineer - Application Development

The role

You will craft front end tools and interfaces that thousands of users use to build data-driven applications on the Palantir Foundry platform. You will work on APIs and schemas, interview users, and may take a short embedded customer assignment called Frontline.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor engineers and build shared frontend tooling for teams across Foundry
• Architect and build high-scale, data-intensive APIs
• Develop interactive workflow UIs
• Build products that make technical concepts accessible to non-technical users
• Create low-code and no-code WYSIWYG tools for application builders
• Build the user experience for pro-code tools for developers
• Own APIs and schemas that power frontend code, or develop them with backend engineers
• Work with users and forward deployed engineers to evolve the product
• Scope solution designs and find incremental paths to shipping features
• Take part in a short-term Frontline assignment embedded with customers, if offered

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of frontend software engineering experience
• Experience crafting complex user experiences with a strong sense of good design and usability
• Experience with design systems such as Blueprint, Material-UI, or similar
• Strong frontend coding skills and proficiency in JavaScript and an understanding of how web technologies work
• Familiarity with data structures, loading patterns, frontend frameworks and related tools
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or similar languages
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical people and to iterate with users and product designers
• Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced CI/CD environment
• Ability to learn continuously, work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision

Nice to have

• Active UK Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one

Benefits

• Health and well-being programs (benefits may vary by region)

Before you apply

• UK Security clearance is beneficial but not required; eligibility and willingness to obtain one is accepted
• Palantir will never ask you to pay or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. The company says it values people who want to empower the world's most important institutions.