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Web Application Developer - Defense

Palantir· Defense product vertical / Frontend Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$135k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Frontend engineer role focused on building and shipping data-intensive web applications for Palantir's defense product offering, including geospatial workflows and real-time collaboration tooling, with ownership of APIs and frontend schemas, and collaboration with backend engineers.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Build for high-scale, collaborative, geospatial workflows
  • Design sophisticated frameworks to enable complex workflows across applications in a single workspace
  • Develop the next generation of real-time collaborative tooling and data-analysis solutions
  • Own APIs and schemas that power frontend code and collaborate with backend engineers
  • Scope out solution designs and find incremental paths to shipping new features
  • Continuously learn and adapt across topics like type theory, operational transforms, 2D and 3D mapping, UI design systems, high-scale graphics rendering, performance optimization

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of frontend software engineering experience.
  • Strong frontend coding skills in JavaScript and 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.

Skills

Required:Frontend developmentJavaScriptReactUI/UX collaboration
Nice to have:TypeScript

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents
  • Voluntary life insurance, basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Relocation assistance
  • Take what you need paid time off (non-accrual)
  • 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Leave of absence program including military service and medical events
  • Paid parental leave and subsidized back-up care
  • Fertility and family-building benefits including adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
  • Child-related expenses stipend
  • 401k plan enrollment
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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