Software Engineer, Resources

About the Position

Software Engineer, Resources

Join Retool's engineering team as a Software Engineer, Resources. Help us build a platform that makes it safe to ship software with AI tools.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll:

• Design, build, and manage backend primitives so that users can focus solely on their business logic (e.g. RetoolDB, our managed database solution; and RetoolAI, our built-in framework for wiring LLM interactions into apps and workflows)
• Blend product thinking with API and backend design (e.g. how can we make Kafka event streams intuitive to the user and easy for us to maintain, how can we help a user use Slack without needing to dive into its documentation?)
• Debug customer problems + build features for them (e.g. "the Google Sheets integration doesn't support adding rows", and "what's the best way to support that? Via cell ranges, or via a lightweight, home-grown ORM?")
• Apply a platform mindset to what you build (e.g. How can I implement PKCE such that it can easily be reused across all of our Oauth integrations?)
• Support 20M requests/day via 70+ ways to connect data

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
• Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend (and if you have a preference, we’d love to hear it!)
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Ability to make technical decisions quickly, while looping in key stakeholders, too
• 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 Have

• Experience in JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience building integration platforms or operating a large set of integrations
• Familiarity with AI/LLM-backed systems (e.g. prompt orchestration, embeddings, vector search), especially as part of a broader platform or product
• Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $163,800 – $306,000 per year
• Comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
• Hybrid work location
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing company that is revolutionizing internal tooling

About the Company

At Retool, we're building the platform that makes all of it safe to ship. Build with any AI tool you want, then deploy into one place that connects to your real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and lets teams create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components. The cost of building software has collapsed. The cost of governing it hasn't-and that's the problem we solve.

Developers and domain experts have already automated over 100 million hours of work on our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic work that drives real business value. The people closest to the problem can now build the software to solve it, safely, and within enterprise guardrails.

Let's build the future together.