2+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams.
Strong technical judgment with the ability to engage in design and architecture decisions.
Proven track record of delivering complex projects that enhance customer outcomes.
Ability to identify common needs across customers for scalable platform development.
Sound judgment in balancing delivery speed, reliability, and security.
Experience in coaching engineers and managing team performance.
Strong communication skills for effective collaboration across teams.
Responsibilities
Lead a fullstack team to enhance enterprise adoption of Retool.
Collaborate with Product and Design to align technical strategy with customer needs.
Guide technical design and architecture for access controls and integrations.
Evolve the platform to support AI agents and autonomous workflows.
Drive project execution from scoping to launch, ensuring high standards.
Engage with customers to translate requirements into platform capabilities.
Build processes for improved delivery and cross-team collaboration.
Benefits
Generous benefits package for all employees.
Hybrid work location options.
Full Job Description
IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:
Lead a fullstack team building the capabilities that enable enterprises to adopt, deploy, and scale Retool.
Partner with Product and Design to define the team's strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact.
Guide technical design and architecture across access controls, auditability, admin experiences, and integrations.
Help the platform evolve to support AI agents and autonomous workflows, ensuring infrastructure and controls keep pace with increasingly powerful workloads.
Drive execution from scoping through launch and iteration, making tradeoffs, resolving dependencies, and maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and quality.
Work directly with customers and go-to-market partners to understand enterprise requirements and translate them into reusable platform capabilities.
Support engineers through continuous feedback, coaching, growth opportunities, and clear performance expectations.
Build processes that improve delivery and cross-team collaboration, and partner with Recruiting to grow a diverse team of exceptional engineers.
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:
2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing engineering teams.
Strong technical judgment; we don't expect you to code regularly, but you should be able to navigate our codebase and engage deeply in design and architecture decisions.
A track record of setting technical direction and delivering complex projects that improve customer outcomes and support business growth.
Platform instincts: the ability to identify common needs across customers and build scalable foundations that support multiple products and use cases.
Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
Experience coaching engineers, managing performance, and recruiting and building strong teams.
A propensity to operate as a business owner, caring deeply about our customers, product, and team.
Comfort navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and holding yourself and others accountable.
Clear, direct communication and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams.
Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. 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.
About Retool
Retool is a low-code platform that helps businesses build internal tools and workflows without writing code. The platform provides a drag-and-drop interface for building user interfaces and integrates with existing databases and APIs. Retool's customers include startups and Fortune 500 companies in various industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
