Software Engineer, Performance

WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

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 optimizing our stack to the nth degree. We believe performance is a feature, and have to ensure our product runs smoothly on all types of machines and network connections.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

We’re a tool built by engineers, for engineers. You'll work on features that impact Retool builders globally and have the power 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. Your work plays a pivotal role in enhancing existing functionality and shipping new features — optimizing the performance of our customers' applications at every turn.

Retool is built primarily in JavaScript and TypeScript, Node.js on the backend, and React on the frontend. We’re looking for someone with a thorough understanding of at least one of these technologies, and an appetite for going deep into the weeds. We want an opinionated builder, someone who has seen the issues with hyperscaling this stack, and is ready to institute the necessary upgrades.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

As a performance engineer, you will work closely with other product engineers and the infra team to build, ship, and iterate on optimizations. 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!

IN THIS ROLE YOU'LL

• Drive step-change performance wins in Retool’s core runtime environment
• Bring technologies like WebAssembly and edge compute from theory to practice
• Rethink best practices, push the boundaries of what is possible in the web browser
• Work closely with other engineers at Retool to incentivize behaviors that are beneficial for performance
• Stay up-to-date, and perhaps contribute to the latest tools and technologies that are enabling other engineers to build high performing apps

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING

• 6+ years experience in professional software development
• 3+ years experience in web performance
• You have strong programming and data science fundamentals
• Strong React or systems-level experience (Node, Deno, V8, WebKit etc.)
• You’re self-directed and comfortable working autonomously
• You’re able to work with ambiguity, helping navigate to successful outcomes

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience working on web standards or on browser teams (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox etc.)
• Experience writing web apps that use technologies like WASM, web workers and edge compute to improve performance
• Deep understanding of JS build systems like webpack and esbuild