{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3e857fb45d4822bcdbde6827","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3e857fb45d4822bcdbde6827","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3e857fb45d4822bcdbde6827","title":"Software Engineer, Automations","description":"ABOUT RETOOL\nNearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless processes you might never have thought of. But most companies don't have the resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old, clunky internal software, or worse, teams still stuck in manual and spreadsheet workflows.\nAI has changed who gets to build software. The definition of \"developer\" now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly—and the tools they reach for are multiplying by the week. That's both an opportunity and a challenge: as more people build with more AI tools, the risk of shipping ungoverned software into production grows just as fast.\nAt 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.\nDevelopers 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.\nLet's build the future together.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer to help build the next generation of automation at Retool. You'll work on the systems powering Retool Workflows and Agents, helping customers automate business processes, orchestrate complex workflows, and build AI-powered applications that integrate across their technology stack.\nThis is a highly technical, product-minded engineering role. You'll partner closely with product and design to shape an emerging area of the platform, translating ambiguous problems into scalable systems and intuitive developer experiences. From orchestration engines and execution infrastructure to AI integrations and developer tooling, you'll help define how automation is built at Retool.\nYou'll own projects end-to-end—from technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration—while helping establish the architecture that will support this product area as it scales.\nWHO YOU'LL WORK WITH\nYou'll join the Automations team, partnering closely with Product, Design, and GTM to build one of Retool's fastest-growing product areas. The team is focused on extending Retool beyond internal applications into backend automation and AI agents, enabling customers to orchestrate mission-critical workflows across their businesses.\nWe're a collaborative team that enjoys solving difficult technical problems, shipping quickly, and working directly with customers to understand how they're building. You'll have significant ownership and influence over both the technical direction of the platform and the customer experience.\nIN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL\nDesign and build the systems powering Retool Workflows and Agents.\nBuild scalable systems that enable customers to orchestrate complex workflows, automate business processes, and leverage AI throughout their applications.\nPartner closely with product and design to turn ambiguous product ideas into thoughtful technical solutions.\nOwn projects end-to-end—from architecture and implementation to rollout, monitoring, and iteration.\nWork across the stack to improve the developer experience, platform reliability, and execution performance of automation workloads.\nCollaborate directly with customers to understand their automation challenges and build solutions that solve real-world problems.\nHelp shape the technical direction of an emerging product area through architecture discussions, technical decision-making, and code reviews.\nContribute to growing the engineering team through interviewing and mentoring.\nTHE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including time at a high-growth startup.\nExperience building and owning complex, distributed systems or developer platforms.\nStrong full-stack engineering experience, with comfort working across backend services, APIs, and frontend user experiences.\nExperience designing scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).\nAbility to navigate ambiguous technical problems and make thoughtful architectural tradeoffs.\nStrong product intuition and a customer-first mindset—you enjoy understanding how people use what you build.\nExcellent collaboration skills and experience partnering closely with product and design.\nA bias toward ownership, iteration, and shipping high-quality software.\nNICE TO HAVE\nExperience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React.\nExperience building workflow orchestration, distributed execution systems, or event-driven architectures.\nExperience working with AI infrastructure, LLMs, agents, or developer tools.\nExperience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.\nExperience mentoring engineers and helping shape technical direction across a team.\n\nFor candidates based in the United States, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.\nAdditional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.\nThe base pay range for this role is $163,800 – $306,000 per year.\n\nRetool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!\nRetool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. 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But most companies don't have the resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old, clunky internal software, or worse, teams still stuck in manual and spreadsheet workflows.\nAI has changed who gets to build software. The definition of \"developer\" now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly—and the tools they reach for are multiplying by the week. That's both an opportunity and a challenge: as more people build with more AI tools, the risk of shipping ungoverned software into production grows just as fast.\nAt 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. 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This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s experience and qualifications, and location.\nAdditional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.\nThe base pay range for this role is $163,800 – $306,000 per year.\n\nRetool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!\nRetool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. 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