Senior Front-End Engineer

Senior Front-End Engineer (React + Palantir Foundry)

Location: Oakland, CA
Work Arrangement: Primarily Remote; Onsite as Needed
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: November 11, 2026 – March 27, 2027
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Senior Front-End Engineer with strong React and TypeScript experience to build and maintain data-driven web applications supporting wildfire mitigation, regulatory compliance, and reporting workflows.

In this role, you will contribute to a data platform built on Palantir Foundry , helping users explore, validate, and extract trusted data for internal reporting and regulatory submissions. You will develop scalable, reusable frontend components that integrate with Foundry datasets, APIs, and ontology objects while supporting reliable, transparent, and audit-ready workflows.

The ideal candidate combines strong frontend engineering skills with experience building enterprise applications that work with structured data, complex datasets, and backend services.

Key Responsibilities

Front-End Development
- Build, enhance, and maintain enterprise web applications using React and TypeScript within the Palantir Foundry platform.
- Develop reusable, scalable UI components for data exploration, filtering, drill-downs, data validation, and data extraction.
- Create intuitive user experiences for complex data-driven workflows.
- Optimize frontend performance, usability, reliability, and maintainability.

Data Integration and Foundry Connectivity
- Integrate frontend applications with Palantir Foundry Ontology using relevant SDKs and APIs.
- Consume structured datasets and ensure UI components remain aligned with evolving data schemas.
- Collaborate with backend and data engineers to define and maintain data contracts, interfaces, and integration patterns.
- Ensure frontend applications display and process data consistently and accurately.

Compliance and Audit-Ready User Interfaces
- Design interfaces that support traceability, auditability, and data transparency.
- Develop frontend workflows that support regulatory reporting requirements.
- Ensure data displayed in the UI aligns with validated backend datasets and established reporting rules.
- Minimize duplicated business logic in the frontend by relying on validated data and backend services.

Data Validation and Submission Workflows
- Develop workflows for file uploads, schema validation, and structured data submissions.
- Implement clear validation feedback, including pass/fail indicators, error messages, and detailed logs.
- Support scalable validation frameworks for compliance and reporting data.
- Help users identify and resolve data quality issues efficiently.

Collaboration and Agile Delivery
- Work closely with data engineers responsible for Foundry pipelines, product managers, PMO stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
- Translate business and reporting requirements into effective frontend solutions.
- Participate in Agile planning, backlog refinement, development, testing, and delivery cycles.
- Collaborate across technical and business teams to resolve integration challenges and deliver reliable solutions.

Required Qualifications

- Strong professional experience developing enterprise applications using React .
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend development practices.
- Experience building data-driven user interfaces integrated with APIs and backend services.
- Solid understanding of data modeling concepts, structured datasets, and data schemas.
- Experience handling large datasets in frontend applications, including performance and usability considerations.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with frontend, backend, data engineering, product, and business teams.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry .
- Experience integrating applications with Foundry SDKs, APIs, and ontology-based data models.
- Familiarity with metadata-driven systems and structured data access patterns.
- Experience working on compliance reporting, audit-focused applications, or other regulated enterprise environments.
- Experience implementing data validation, data quality, or structured submission workflows.
- Experience developing internal enterprise tools and data platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies.

What Makes This Opportunity Unique?

- Work on a data platform supporting wildfire mitigation and compliance reporting.
- Build modern React and TypeScript applications integrated with enterprise data systems.
- Develop user interfaces where data accuracy, validation, and auditability are essential.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and product teams on complex data-driven workflows.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their resume highlighting relevant experience with React, TypeScript, enterprise frontend development, API integration, and Palantir Foundry or similar data platforms.

Key Skills

Core Technologies: React, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3
Frameworks & Libraries: React Router, Redux Toolkit (or Context API), Jest, React Testing Library
Enterprise Integration: RESTful APIs, GraphQL (preferred), Palantir Foundry SDKs & APIs
Data & Schema Handling: Structured data modeling, JSON/XML, ontology-based data models, data contracts
UI/UX for Data: Data visualization, filtering, drill-downs, validation feedback, audit trails
Development Practices: Component-driven design, reusable UI libraries, accessibility (WCAG), performance optimization
Domain Expertise: Regulatory compliance workflows, audit-ready systems, data validation, submission pipelines
Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, collaborative cross-functional delivery

(Bhaumic Kaushal)