9 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage backend primitives for resources such as RetoolDB and RetoolAI.
- Blend product thinking with API and backend design for integrations and data resources.
- Debug customer problems and build features to improve integrations such as Google Sheets.
- Develop reusable platform capabilities for OAuth integrations, including PKCE.
- Support infrastructure handling 20 million requests per day across more than 70 data connections.
- Own technically challenging, cross-functional projects and communicate with customers to validate product needs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally including startup experience.
- Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects.
- Experience across the full stack, including backend and frontend development.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Ability to make technical decisions quickly while involving relevant stakeholders.
- Customer-first mindset and willingness to speak with customers.
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is preferred.
- Experience building integration platforms or operating a large set of integrations is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM-backed systems, including prompt orchestration, embeddings, or vector search, is preferred.
- Experience mentoring other team members is a bonus.
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About Retool
Retool builds a developer platform for quickly creating internal apps, workflows, and automations by combining visual components with code and connecting to existing databases and APIs. It sells cloud and self‑hosted enterprise subscriptions with governance, security, and permissions features for large organizations. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and used by engineering and operations teams across many industries.