Software Engineer, Retool
Workflows
$164.6-255k
The application layer for AI
Open for applications
The application layer for AI
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$164.6-255k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
- You’ve built, maintained, debugged and scaled distributed systems products
- You have an an interest in rigorous, critical thinking about how to shape user-facing product offerings and features
Desirable
- You’re an expert with Typescript and Node.js
- You’ve designed complex data pipelines or asynchronous systems
- You’ve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc
- You understand OS-level containerization and execution environments
- You’ve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores
- You’ve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads
What the job involves
- To continue our fast-paced growth, we need to build a world-class engineering team. You’ll help us get there by owning end-to-end projects, talking with customers, and ultimately supporting the growth of Retool the product and the business
- As an engineer, you will work closely with product and design teams to build, ship, and iterate new features
- Improve the user experience of writing and maintaining business logic in Retool Workflows
- Build creative, innovative software development interfaces
- Integrate and unify the business logic experience in Retool, creating a cohesive, simple, and powerful platform
- Debug real customer problems + build features for them (e.g. "the Google Sheets integration doesn't support adding rows", and "what's the best way to support that? Via cell ranges, or via a lightweight, home-grown ORM?")
- Find extensible and reliable ways to extend Retool with AI
- Make our distributed compute layer more flexible, more performant, and more secure
- Help assess and recruit future engineers
Our take
Retool allows developers to build internal applications quickly using a complete set of ready-made building blocks. These internal applications can be used to display company data from a range of sources, including Redis, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and Slack.
For a monthly fee, the platform enables companies to save time that they would have otherwise spent on developing their own internal applications. Retool brands itself as 'low-code,' meaning that it is easy to use and customize. There is a huge demand for systems that allow teams to analyze the data they already have. Retool already counts brands such as Amazon, Philips, Peloton, NBC, and Mercedes-Benz as customers.
Founded in 2017, the company is now valued at over $3.6B. Founded by Oxford graduate David Hsu, the management team includes ex-Stripe and ex-Airbnb employees with plenty of experience in taking a company from a start-up to a global brand.
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Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.3m
Company benefits
- Your health: Our healthcare plans include flexible, competitive options for medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Your fuel: Fully snack-stocked kitchens at every turn, with breakfast, lunch and dinner provided at our San Francisco and New York offices.
- Your growth: We provide a $1,200 annual stipend that can be utilized for all learning-related expenses, including books, conferences, classes, and more.
- Your family: Access to comprehensive family planning services, generous paid parental leave for new parents, and a remarkable $10,000 lifetime benefit towards fertility support.
- Your time: Flexible freedom for a healthier you: take the time off that you need, when you need it! Discover flexible PTO and our 4 week Work From Anywhere policy to rejuvenate on your time.
- Your sidekick: Bring your favorite sidekick to work and enjoy our dog-friendly offices!
- Your future: Plan for your future. We offer enrollment and matching up to 4% for our US-based employees.
- Your wellbeing: Enjoy a suite of perks and memberships that enable you to thrive both personally and professionally.
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Hsu
(Founder & CEO)David studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before founding Retool in 2017. He has served as CEO ever since.
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