Web Application Developer, Palantir
Defense
$125-200k
More information about location
5+ days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Data analytics software
Job no longer available
Data analytics software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$125-200k
More information about location
5+ days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Palantir believes in augmenting human intelligence, not replacing it. They believe with good data and the right technology, people and institutions today can still solve hard problems and change the world for the better.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of frontend software engineering experience
- Strong frontend coding skills. Regardless of which frameworks you use or how you learned them, we’re looking for people who can write clean, effective code. You should already have proficiency in JavaScript and an understanding of how web technologies work
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent understanding of algorithms, performance, and systems design
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
Desirable
- Passion for building user interfaces that enable users to tackle their problems
- Ability to work optimally in teams of technical and non-technical individuals, e.g. brainstorming and iterating with product designers
- Skill and comfort working in a constantly evolving environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users
- Experience building high-quality software in a fast-paced 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 in-depth experience. Motivated by unlocking or improving user workflows while still maintaining engineering quality
What the job involves
- This is a frontend engineering role focused on application development for our defense product offering, where you will be responsible for crafting the applications that organizations use every day to keep their countries safe
- You will be architecting and developing interfaces to make sophisticated, data-intensive workflows both powerful and approachable, including to non-technical users
- You may spend one day talking to users to better understand their needs and identifying product gaps to improve
- The next day, you might find yourself putting that customer context to use and brainstorming how to handle intricate UX needs with your teammates
- You’ll regularly face 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, and work with backend engineers in developing them together
- You’ll be constantly exploring new horizons and building new skills in service of real world needs: between type theory, operational transforms, 2D and 3D mapping, UI design systems, high-scale graphics rendering, evidence-based performance optimization, and the never-ending need to decompose user asks into rich, sophisticated, and maintainable software, there is always a new challenge to be faced
- As a frontend engineer working on our defense product offering, you will be involved throughout the product lifecycle - from idea generation, design, and prototyping to execution and shipping
Our take
Palantir have a huge mission to transform the world using data and technology. Its technology has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover medicines and gain an edge in the financial markets. These are big and exciting problems to work on.
Palantir is a big and established company, having been founded in 2004, but is still struggling to turn a profit thanks to aggressive expansion and a general downturn in the global economy particularly affecting tech. It has large customers (including the US military and in 2024, the Israeli Defence Ministry) and a strong demand for its product, but delivery is a long-term and complex proposition that can take some time to yield returns.
There has been some controversy around the company due to the work it does for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, an organisation that Google refused to support. Palantir has stated that its technology is only used for criminal investigation and not enforcement.
Palantir has recently expanded its ongoing role with the British Ministry of Defence which will offer support for the UK's military operations and intelligence gathering by simulating operational planning. This is in addition to Palantir's partnership with the UK's NHS to help reduce the backlog of patients waiting for elective care.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2020
$550m
LATE VC
Nov 2016
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability coverage
- Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
- Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
- Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Unlimited paid time off
- 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
Alexander Karp
(CEO)Previously founded Caedmon Group. Received Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
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