Software Engineer, Retool

• 8+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
• Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend (and if you have a preference, we’d love to hear it!)
• 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

• You’ll help build Retool’s Agents product – a platform that lets customers create and deploy AI agents that act on real business data and systems
• You’ll define how customers automate complex workflows with LLMs, shape the primitives for agent orchestration and monitoring, and partner with product, design, and AI infrastructure teams to bring them to life
• Modifying our agent orchestration system to handle new modalities like voice, images, or files
• Building abstractions so users can customize agent interactions for their business processes
• Adding long-term memory and learning capabilities while maintaining strict data access boundaries
• Designing new mechanisms for human approval and interaction within agentic systems
• 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
• If this sounds like a fit, we’d love to hear from you!
• Build and expand the Retool Agents product, enabling customers to automate real business workflows with AI
• Design and implement the primitives that power agent orchestration, reasoning, and tool execution
• Ship new agent capabilities – from chat-based invocation to workflow triggers and observability features
• Debug customer problems and build features that help them integrate AI safely into their existing systems
• Stay close to the latest LLM and agentic advancements, bringing the best of that technology into Retool
• Work closely with a high-velocity, technically skilled cross-functional team
• Help assess and recruit future engineers
• Work on improving the scalability and performance of Retool’s platform (e.g. frontend performance, query latency, and real-time monitoring)