Software Engineer, Retool

• 6+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Experience working with LLMs, including state of the art techniques (chain of thought, fine-tuning, few-shot learning, etc)
• Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend (and if you have a preference, we’d love to hear it!)
• Nice to have: experience with Vector databases, and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and data pipelines
• Nice to have: exposure to evaluation systems, including running experiments, labeling, user feedback, and scoring methods
• Nice to have: exposure to MLOps techniques (fine-tuning pipelines, model-hosting)
• Experience with cloud based infrastructure like Azure, AWS or GCP
• Ability to make technical decisions quickly, while looping in key stakeholders, too
• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building meets their needs
• Habit of introspection and understanding what’s helped you be successful in the past

Desirable

• Retool started as a way to address obstacles with internal tools and has grown into a company that solves internal tooling for thousands of companies (big and small)
• Retool leverages AI to empower thousands of users to build apps in minutes instead of hours, accelerating the journey from prompt to finished product
• We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about harnessing LLMs to deliver on state-of-the-art developer-focused product experiences
• You’ll work on features that redefine what it means to build software in Retool
• Whether that’s building rich interfaces for users to interact with LLMs and take action, extending our eval system to support a wider array of use cases within Retool, or iterating on our underlying model architecture to be faster, more resilient, and produce higher-quality output, we have a lot exciting technical challenges ahead of us
• Retool is built primarily in JavaScript and TypeScript, Node.js on the backend, and React on the frontend
• We’ll look to you to bring your experience to build within this environment and impact our codebase
• You’ll also engage in technical decision-making with the team, participate in planning, and help our engineering team expand its skillset
• To that end, you’ll also play a key role in helping us grow the team through interviewing potential new team members
• As an engineer, you will work closely with product and design teams to build, ship, and iterate new features
• We’re a hard-working, passionate bunch who are motivated by collaboration, strong results, and bringing the impact of Retool to our customers
• When we’re in the office, we enjoy eating lunch (and occasionally dinner!) together, and we’ve been known for our lively game nights
• But at the root of it all, we come together to show our customers and not-quite-yet customers how Retool can make them and their companies more efficient and successful
• Craft and deliver magical, highly-differentiated AI experiences that Builders in Retool can’t live without
• Iterate on our underlying model architecture, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability
• Work closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to establish best practices and patterns for building AI products
• Help assess and recruit future engineers
• Work on increasing the scalability of Retool’s platform as a whole (e.g. frontend application performance, reducing query latencies)