Frontend Engineer

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).

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.

• 6+ 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 offers generous benefits to all employees. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!

Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.

At Retool, we’re designing a new type of development environment that makes it dramatically faster and easier to build all of this software. Retool unifies the ease of visual programming with the power of code, while abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks of development. We believe that the future of software development lies in being a force multiplier for developers and technical builders, helping them move considerably faster and build a lot more software. It’s akin to a new version of Visual Basic, HyperCard, or Flash—with a bit of Figma and some future-of-programming vibes thrown on top. Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools, to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business.