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London - UK

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Not Disclosed

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Job Description

A WorldChanging Company

Palantir builds the worlds leading software for datadriven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving forecast supply chain disruptions locate missing children and more.

The Role

Palantir Foundry is an endtoend platform for datadriven decisionmaking. Were transforming the way organisations 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 organisations. They can also build sophisticated fullfledged programs such as common operating pictures alerttriaging inboxes and resource allocation planning tools driven by richML models.

As a Senior Front End Software Engineer focused on application development in Foundry you will be responsible for crafting the tools used by thousands of users to build the sophisticated applications that power their businesses. You will be architecting and developing interfaces state management and access patterns to support dataintensive workflows that are both powerful and approachable. You may spend one day interviewing users to better understand their needs and identifying product gaps to improve. The next day you might find yourself considering that customer context along with signal gathered from other customers in different industries brainstorming approaches to handling intricate UX needs with your teammates.

Youll regularly be faced with sophisticated technical problems requiring you to scope out the solution design and finding an incremental path to shipping the new features. As part of this you will own APIs and schemas that power your frontend code or work with other backend engineers in developing them together.

Were hiring engineers who are passionate about solving realworld problems and empowering both customer app builders and endusers to do their work optimally. Below are some examples of the types of product work youd get to do 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 for highscale data intensive APIs (example)
    • Developing interactive workflow UIs
    • Building products which aim to make technical concepts accessible for nontechnical users
    • Creating lowcode/nocode WYSIWYG tools which enable application builders within Foundry to build products for their users
    • Building the user experience for our next generation of procode tools to enable developers to build on top of Foundry
    • Engaging with signal directly from our forward deployed engineers and deployment strategists to rapidly evolve our product to meet real world requirements.

Technologies We Use

    • Typescript React and GQL are central to our frontend development.
    • Blueprint as a reusable front end component library.
    • A combination of opensource and internal technologies that suit the problems at hand.
    • Industrystandard build tooling including Webpack GitHub and CircleCI.

What We Value

    • Passion for improving user workflows and building user interfaces that enable users to tackle their problems while still maintaining engineering quality.
    • Ability to work collaboratively in teams of technical and nontechnical individuals and understand how technical decisions impact the people who will use what youre building.
    • Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
    • Experience brainstorming and iterating with product designers.
    • Experience building highquality software in a fastpaced CI/CD development environment.
    • Proven ability to learn continuously work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.
    • Ability to learn new technology and concepts even without indepth experience.
    • Active UK Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a UK Security clearance is beneficial but not necessary.

What We Require

    • 4 years of frontend software engineering experience.
    • Experience crafting complex user experiences (UX) with a strong intuition for good design and usability.
    • Experience working with design systems such as Blueprint MaterialUI or similar.
    • Strong frontend coding skills used to write clean effective code regardless of framework and existing proficiency in JavaScript and understanding of how web technologies work.
    • Familiarity with data structures loading patterns frontend frameworks and other technical tools and concepts.
    • Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript or similar languages.
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Life at Palantir

We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes thats why we celebrate individuals strengths skills and interests from your first interview to your longterm growth rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians lives is just one of the ways were investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.

In keeping consistent with Palantirs values and culture we believe employees are better together and inperson work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week) allowing our employees to strike the right tradeoff for their personal productivity. Based on business need there are a few roles that allow for Remote work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite you are required to work from an office.

If you want to empower the worlds most important institutions you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process please reach out and let us know how we can help.

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Senior IC

Employment Type

Full-Time

Department / Functional Area

Product Development

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