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Software Engineer - Core Interfaces

palantir · New York, NY · On-site

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About palantir

We build software that empowers organizations to effectively integrate their data, decisions, and operations. Backed by Founders Fund.

About the role

As a software engineer on this team, you'll work with these cross-application frameworks end-to-end, from the low-level technical implementation to high-level UX decisions. You'll work extensively with core web APIs—Broadcast Channels, Service Workers, Local Storage—to enable real-time communication between applications. Additionally, you will help develop an Electron application that extends and enhances these workflows through Electron-specific capabilities, such as the IPC API.

What they're looking for

  • 2+ years of frontend software engineering experience
  • 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
More about this role

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

Palantir builds applications that help customers organize, understand, and make decisions based on their data. Because these applications serve different roles within an organization's workflow, users frequently have multiple applications open at once, and expect them to work together seamlessly. While backend services handle much of this coordination, delivering a truly fast and responsive experience requires applications to also directly interact with each other through client-side frameworks running in the browser. Building these frameworks is uniquely challenging: every Palantir application plays a distinct role and has its own set of first-class UX concepts, yet the frameworks need to integrate cleanly into all of them. Success requires both strong API design skills and a keen eye for user experience.

The frontend frameworks our team builds serve a variety of functions...

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