Software Engineer, Apps Builder Experience

Retool•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

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 build tools that make it easy for anyone technical to build internal software that’s powerful, well-designed, and meets enterprise standards. 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. 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!

Requirements

5+ years experience in full stack web development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
Strong frontend engineering skillset and experience working with React and TypeScript
Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
Experience working with product managers and/or designers
Ability to make technical decisions quickly, while looping in key stakeholders
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

Nice To Haves

Experience with Redux and PostgresSQL
Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members

Responsibilities

Improve the UX of the Retool core editor, which involves plenty of interesting technical problems (e.g., "how do we implement our drag-and-drop system in a performant way?") and product-focused ones (e.g. "how do we make our IDE easy to use for technical users who aren’t engineers?")
Collaborate with the team to build and improve the architectural foundations for how components, theming, layout, and other core features work within Retool
Improve scalability and performance of Retool’s platform (especially on the frontend)
Debug and fix customer problems
Help assess and recruit future engineers

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