Databricks

Senior Software Frontend Engineer - Dashboards

Databricks$146K — $201K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of frontend development experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Expertise in React or similar modern frameworks (Vue, Angular).
  • Strong background with data visualization libraries (D3.js, Vega/Vega-Lite, ECharts, Plotly).
  • Proficient in UX principles, including accessibility and responsive design for data interfaces.
  • Experience in architecting large-scale visualization systems.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions and deliver impactful features.
  • Passion for transforming complex data into intuitive visual narratives.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build intuitive, high-performance data visual interfaces.
  • Develop reusable visualization components and frameworks.
  • Collaborate with design and product teams to create engaging visual experiences.
  • Drive innovation in data interaction, optimizing for scale and responsiveness.
  • Own the user experience of visualization workflows.
  • Contribute to UI architecture that supports diverse visualization needs.
  • Partner with backend teams to optimize APIs for real-time analytics.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to employee needs.
  • Diversity and inclusion programs fostering an equitable workplace.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description
P-1443

As a Senior Frontend Engineer focused on Dashboards, you'll build intuitive and scalable end-to-end experiences that help users create, explore, and share insights from data. You'll work across the frontend, partnering with designers, product managers, and engineers to develop the next generation of dashboards, interactivity, and analytical workflows within Databricks.
What You'll Do
  • Design and build intuitive, high-performance experiences for creating and editing dashboards, as well as for authoring the data behind them, including SQL datasets, custom calculations, and semantic modeling.
  • Partner closely with design and product to translate complex analytical concepts into polished, intuitive, and efficient dashboard experiences.
  • Drive innovation in how Databricks users interact with data, enabling seamless and responsive exploration at scale.
  • Own frontend development for core dashboard workflows, with a focus on usability, performance, accessibility, and reliability.
  • Help shape the architecture, abstractions, and platform foundations that support a broad range of dashboarding and analytical use cases.
  • Collaborate with backend engineers and adjacent teams to define APIs, data models, and contracts that power interactive and scalable dashboard experiences.
What We Look For
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience building both frontend and backend systems.
  • Expertise in modern frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React, or similar frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design for data-heavy interfaces.
  • Experience designing scalable systems and abstractions that support interactive, high-performance product experiences.
  • Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver impactful user-facing features.
  • Experience building dashboards, analytics, data exploration, authoring tools, or business intelligence products is a plus.
  • Familiarity with SQL authoring, custom calculations, semantic modeling, or related analytical workflows is a plus.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes is preferred.


Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticpates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.

Canada Pay Range

$146,200-$201,100 CAD

BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
Learn more about Databricks
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2,000 employees
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Founded
2013

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