Software Engineer, Retool

Salary not provided
AWS
GCP
JavaScript
Azure
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Retool

Low-code internal tools building software

Open for applications

Retool

Low-code internal tools building software

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSProduct ManagementNo-Code

Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
GCP
JavaScript
Azure
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSProduct ManagementNo-Code

Company mission

Retool's mission is to create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ 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!)
  • Experience in Javascript
  • 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
  • Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members, and have previously worked closely with designers

What the job involves

  • Improve the UX of the Retool core editor, which involves plenty of interesting problems, both technical (e.g. "how do we implement our drag and drop system in a performant way?") and otherwise (e.g. "how do we handle the pushing of existing components when dragging new components on?")
  • Build entirely new product lines (e.g. an interface to share queries — both SQL, and REST + GraphQL across your company)
  • Debug 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?")
  • Write technical blog posts (e.g. "here's how we implemented role-based access controls") and documentation (e.g. if you build the Google Sheets integration, you will write documentation on how it's used)
  • 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.

Retool was founded in 2017, and the company is now valued at over $1 billion. 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. Retool was awarded $45 million in Series C in 2022, which it is using to expand its workforce, tweak its platform, and develop new products.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

38% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jul 2022

$45m

SERIES C

Dec 2021

$20m

SERIES C

Total funding: $165.2m

Company benefits

  • Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits
  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices
  • $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.)
  • $1,000 work-from-home-setup stipend
  • Flexible PTO
  • Family planning support and paid parental leave
  • 401(k) Matching
  • Mental health and wellness benefits

Company HQ

Civic Center, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

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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