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.
