Software Engineer - Frontend Developer Productivity

Role Overview

Palantir builds software that transforms how the world’s most important organizations use data. As an engineer focused on Frontend Developer Productivity, you’ll 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 developer experience in the IDE to user experience in the browser, maintaining:

• 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 (feature flags, internationalization, commit previews).
• A GraphQL API for declarative data loading.
• Blueprint, Palantir's open-source UI framework.
• Tools and VSCode extensions improving 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

• A variety of programming languages, including TypeScript, SCSS, and Java.
• Open-source libraries and frameworks like React and GraphQL.
• Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Webpack, CircleCI, and GitHub.

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.

What We Value

• Passion for helping other developers build better applications.
• Empathy for the impact your changes will have on developer workflows and productivity.
• Ability to design solutions balancing complexity and maintenance cost against value.
• Eagerness to delve into open-source library source code (such as Webpack or Chromium).
• In-depth knowledge of web technologies and/or build systems (preferred, not required).