Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
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The Global Monitoring Service (GMS) App Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of our application's frontend. We are looking for an individual who can contribute deep technical expertise and provide mentorship to ensure adherence to frontend best practices. The GMS App Team is responsible for providing a customized application for Defense & Intelligence customers from around the world. This application provides daily, near-real time monitoring and analytic insights on customer-defined sites built atop Planet’s satellite data.
Impact You'll Own:
- Design and implement frontend features.
- Develop and maintain frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
- Mentor other engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
- Contribute to backend systems and APIs as needed, with a primary focus on frontend ownership
- Drive architectural decisions impacting the frontend, including component design and state management patterns.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to deliver solutions.
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of relevant work experience developing web applications.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other relevant field.
- Proficiency with React and component-based architecture.
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Ability to lead feature implementation from discovery through deployment.
- Ability to improve team capabilities through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Experience mentoring teammates on Front End best practices.
- Professional working proficiency in English, the language of the company.
- Experience with state management and data fetching in frontend applications.
- Experience working with REST APIs.
- Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and responsive design.
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience with monorepo tooling or large-scale frontend architectures.
- Experience with mapping libraries or data visualization tools.
- Experience with modern testing frameworks and CI/CD practices and leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity.
- Background in geospatial technologies, remote sensing, or the defense and intelligence sector.
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View Company ProfilePlanet Labs (often referred to simply as Planet) is a highly disruptive aerospace and geospatial data enterprise fundamentally revolutionizing how we monitor our rapidly changing world. Founded in 2010 by a team of former NASA scientists and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in human history. Under the hood, their agile aerospace architecture leverages hundreds of compact, high-performance satellites (including SuperDoves, SkySats, and the next-generation Pelican and Tanager constellations) to capture a daily, high-resolution photographic index of the entire global landmass. Their primary target audience spans massive agricultural conglomerates, global defense and intelligence agencies, civil governments, and financial institutions that desperately need near real-time, multidimensional insights to track climate risks, monitor critical border infrastructure, and detect supply chain anomalies. What sets Planet apart in the capital-intensive space tech industry is its unprecedented frequency and scale—shifting the paradigm from static, outdated satellite mapping to a dynamic, AI-powered "Planet Insights Platform" that empowers decision-makers to track and act on global changes at the exact speed they occur.
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