Software Engineer - Frontend Developer Productivity

A World-Changing Company

At Palantir, we're dedicated to helping the world's most important institutions use their data to solve their most urgent problems. Our software enables our customers to integrate and analyze all of their data, aiding in everything from disaster relief to safer automobile construction. We're proud to assist in our partners' most critical work across national security, healthcare, energy, finance, and manufacturing sectors.

The Role

As a Software Engineer focused on Frontend Developer Productivity, you will be part of our Frontend Infrastructure group. This role involves identifying, developing, and driving investments to enhance the velocity and quality of our engineering processes. You will be working on:

• 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, internationalization, and commit previews.
• A GraphQL API for declarative data loading, spanning many underlying services.
• Blueprint, the open-source UI framework used by all of Palantir's applications and thousands of developers worldwide.
• Various tools and VSCode extensions that improve developer experience across the company.

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 Gradle-based 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

• TypeScript, SCSS, Java
• React, GraphQL
• Industry-standard 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 open-source libraries to truly understand how they work or to debug an issue.
• Staying up-to-date with recent industry practices and advancements in open-source technology.

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.