Software Engineer - Frontend Developer Productivity
Software Engineer - Frontend Developer Productivity
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20-04-2025
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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
Are you passionate about engineering quality efficiency and increasing the impact of engineers around you
Software Engineers at Palantir build software that transforms how the worlds most important organisations use data. As an engineer focused on Frontend Developer Productivity youll work within our Frontend Infrastructure group to identify develop and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering.
Our frontend infrastructure group covers our entire frontend development stack from the developer experience in the IDE to the final user experience in the browser. Across the group we are responsible for developing and maintaining:
The build and CI system for a large frontend monorepo with millions of lines of code and hundreds of active developers.
Core infrastructure required to develop and serve our frontends including feature flags internationalisation and commit previews.
A GraphQL API for declarative data loading spanning many underlying services.
Blueprint the open source UI framework used by all of Palantirs applications and thousands of developers around the world.
A variety of tools and VSCode extensions that improve developer experience across the company.
With an ambitious roadmap ahead of us youll have the opportunity to make a lasting difference on application development at Palantir.
Core Responsibilities
- Design tools and infrastructure that make it easy for developers to build performant applications.
- Identify the most pressing issues affecting our frontend developers and advocate for potential solutions.
- Extend our Gradlebased build tooling to decrease build times even as the size of our monorepo increases.
- Provide support for other developers by answering questions on Slack documenting common dev workflows and issues or giving internal tech talks.
Technologies We Use
- A variety of programming languages including TypeScript SCSS and Java.
- Opensource libraries and frameworks like React and GraphQL.
- Industrystandard build tooling including Gradle Webpack CircleCI and GitHub.
What We Value
- Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
- Empathy for the impact your changes will have on the workflows and productivity of developers and end users.
- Demonstrated ability to design solutions that balance complexity and ongoing maintenance cost against value to the developer and end user.
- Eagerness to delve into the source code of opensource libraries (such Webpack or Chromium) to truly understand how they work or to debug an issue.
- Staying uptodate with recent industry practices and advancements in opensource technology.
- Indepth knowledge of web technologies and/or build systems is preferred but not required.
What We Require
- 2 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript Java C Python or another similar programming language.
- Great problem solving skills with the ability to navigate complex systems.
- Familiarity with data structures distributed systems and other technical tools.
- 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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