Software Engineer, Retool

• 3+ 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

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)
• We’ve done a lot with a little–we have a growing engineering team and a laundry list of features and foundational improvements we want to tackle
• 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
• We’re a tool built by engineers for engineers
• You will work on features that impact thousands of customers globally and have the ability to change how applications are built across all parts of the stack
• You’ll meet with internal counterparts to enhance customer thinking and partner closely with product on building out features
• You’ll have a large impact on new features or improve performance on thousands of customers' applications
• 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
• 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?")
• Expand the types of applications that you can build into different parts of the development process
• 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?")
• Help assess and recruit future engineers
• Work on increasing the scalability of Retool’s platform (e.g. frontend application performance, reducing query latencies)