over 4 years ago
Responsibilities
- Improve the UX and performance of Retool’s core editor, including its drag-and-drop system.
- Expand the types of applications users can build across different parts of the development process.
- Debug customer problems and build product features and integrations to address them.
- Work across the frontend and backend to build, ship, and iterate on new features.
- Increase the scalability of Retool’s platform by improving application performance and reducing query latency.
- Own technically challenging cross-functional projects and participate in technical decision-making and planning.
- Help assess and recruit future engineers through interviewing.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience, ideally including startup experience.
- Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects.
- Full-stack experience spanning backend and frontend development.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Ability to make timely technical decisions while involving key stakeholders.
- Customer-first mindset and willingness to talk with customers about product needs.
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is preferred.
- Experience with PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Mentoring experience and close collaboration with designers are beneficial.
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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.