Front End Engineer - Apollo Platform
London, United Kingdom
Dev /
Full-time /
Hybrid
A World-Changing Company
Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role
Apollo is Palantir's product that enables autonomous management and continuous deployment of mission critical software, wherever it is. We’re transforming the way organisations around the world deploy software, taking SAAS where SAAS has not gone before: from on-premise, to various cloud providers, to disconnected environments (air-gapped), to strict accreditation frameworks, and to the edge.
As a Front End Engineer on the Apollo platform you will be responsible for the experience of thousands of users, architecting interfaces that make sophisticated deployment and monitoring tasks simple. You might spend one day interviewing users to understand their complex workflows and the next brainstorming mockups with Product Designers. Another day, you could tackle automating a workflow, partnering with backend engineers to wire up your code with the APIs, or if you’re really up for a challenge, building them yourself!
We're hiring engineers who are passionate about the whole development lifecycle — not just fixing bugs or maintaining legacy code — from idea generation, user interviews, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and iteration.
Core Responsibilities
- Work with Product Designers and internal and external customers to develop the overall look and design of our web application
- Develop and evolve core libraries and components used to render user interfaces
- Collaborate with Backend Engineers to define APIs that support frontend functionality
- Contribute backend code to unblock and enhance projects
- Routinely test and debug web applications, manually and through automation, to maintain high quality and performance
What We Value
- High sense of ownership and ability to own things end-to-end
- Strong design sense and deep user empathy
- Clear and concise verbal and written communications
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced product development team, with peers and teammates across multiple locations and timezones
- High engineering standards and a desire to improve both new and existing systems
- Willingness and enthusiasm to do what it takes to get things done, leading by example and deeply engaging with the team’s day-to-day work
- A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides
What We Require
- 3+ years of front end software engineering experience. Regardless of which frameworks you use or how you learned them, we’re looking for people who can write clean, effective code.
- Proven track record of building impactful user interfaces, understanding how technical decisions impact users
- Proficiency with web technologies and front end programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar languages
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks, data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools
- Demonstrated ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration cycles
Life at Palantir
We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that’s 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 well-being across all areas of Palantirians’ lives is just one of the ways we’re investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region.
In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person 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 trade-off 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.
Palantir is committed to promoting a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that all Palantirians share the responsibility of upholding our commitment to these values and encourage candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences to join us in solving the world’s hardest problems.
Palantir is committed to making the job application process accessible to everyone. If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible) and need to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
