Frontend Engineer

WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

Retool is both an interface used to build internal tools and the runtime for those apps. It's used simultaneously by technically-demanding engineers and productivity-focused end users. As you can imagine it's critical that we build a performant usable and powerful front end.

As a front-end engineer at Retool you’ll be building a platform that thousands of customers rely on to run their operations.

We have a small but mighty engineering team. We’ve done a lot with a little but there’s much more work to be done to continue our fast-paced growth we need to hire 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 (both the product and the business).

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Front-end engineers at Retool collaborate closely with our design team to craft a product that delights our users. You will help extend the core functionality of our application editor which requires both attention to detail and an understanding of performance implications. To keep Retool blazingly fast we may end up experimenting with Core React functionality Web Workers and WebAssembly.

New features often start off as customer ideas. You’ll take those ideas and scope build test document and ship them to production . Outside of customer feedback you’ll also weigh in on our product roadmap which is set collaboratively by design and engineering.

You’ll be working primarily in React and Typescript with a Node.js backend.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

At Retool we work cross-functionally with designers customer engineers and support engineers as well as the marketing and sales teams. Engineers make a lot of product decisions and you’ll partner frequently with designers as you scope and build your projects. Everyone on our design team is comfortable both in Figma as well as code.

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 swapping stories. 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 you we’d love to hear from you!

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:

• 5+ years experience in professional front-end development ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Significant experience working with Javascript/Typescript and React
• Previous experience working closely with designers building flexible composable libraries and components
• You sweat the important details and are passionate about maintainable scalable CSS.
• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
• A record of identifying valuable projects communicating the strategy for them and executing on them autonomously
• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building is a polished product 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

Retool is a Y Combinator-graduate backed by Sequoia Capital as well as the founders of Github Gusto PagerDuty Segment and Stripe. Located in the heart of Hayes Valley San Francisco we build tools that delight our customers empower businesses to run more effectively and keep engineering teams happy.

Interested in what we're doing? We'd love to hear from you.