Retool is building an enterprise AppGen platform that transforms natural language into production-ready code, integrates with business data, and meets security and governance standards. The company aims to enable a wider range of users, including analysts and operators, to build production-grade software safely and efficiently, automating millions of hours of work and empowering businesses to create AI agents that act on real data and systems.
Requirements
- Experience working with LLMs, agents, or AI orchestration frameworks in a production context
- Experience designing or using evals and feedback loops to improve AI systems
- Experience in JavaScript / TypeScript
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend
- Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
- 8+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
Responsibilities
- Modifying our agent orchestration system to handle new modalities like voice, images, or files
- Building abstractions so users can customize agent interactions for their business processes
- Adding long-term memory and learning capabilities while maintaining strict data access boundaries
- Designing new mechanisms for human approval and interaction within agentic systems
- Build and expand the Retool Agents product, enabling customers to automate real business workflows with AI
- Design and implement the primitives that power agent orchestration, reasoning, and tool execution
- Ship new agent capabilities – from chat-based invocation to workflow triggers and observability features
Other
- 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
- Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members, and have previously worked closely with designers
- Help assess and recruit future engineers
