Retool

Web Engineer

Posted on Mar 07, 2023

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Job Details

Full Time
📍Remote
🇺🇸 United States
👨Mid-level

About Retool

At Retool, we’re changing the way software is built. We’ve developed the fastest way to build internal tools, saving companies time, resources, and engineering bandwidth. Whether it’s refunding orders, underwriting loans, managing marketplaces, rolling out new features, analyzing transactions, or providing customer support, Retool makes it dramatically faster and easier to build internal tools that teams need. We believe that the future of software development lies in being a force multiplier for developers and technical builders, helping them move considerably faster building a lot more software. We’re looking for highly collaborative people as we build a world-class team to support this mission and we’d love for you to join us!

The Position

As an engineer on a small team focused on Retool’s web presence, you’ll own implementation of projects across all of our web touch points (retool.com, our blog, the community, documentation, and more) from start to finish. Working with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll collaborate on design approaches and communicate technical trade-offs. You’ll audit our current tech stack and content management infrastructure and design a path forward that scales with our aggressive goals and makes it easier for others to contribute.

Most importantly, you’ll sweat the details: whether it’s implementing a complex React animation, shaving seconds off of time to interactive, or improving the reliability of the build pipeline.

WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU:

Thousands of customers use Retool to power their businesses with custom internal software, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. As quickly as we’re growing, we’ve barely scratched the surface: we have a huge opportunity to share the value of Retool, the impact the product has for our customers, and how we’re changing the way internal tools are built.

For most, our web presence is the first impression of Retool. No matter where a visitor lands—retool.com, our blog, the community, documentation—we want to create a cohesive interactive experience that reflects the power, flexibility, and speed of the Retool product.

We have both high expectations and a demanding, technically-savvy audience of developers. We expect our web presence to be highly informative, eminently usable, and visually stunning. Most of all, it should meet our visitors at their point of need and provide a seamless transition to immediately building software inside of Retool.

To help lead this vision, we’re looking for a full-stack web engineer interested in operating at the intersection of design, code, and content.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

As an engineer on a small team focused on Retool’s web presence, you’ll own implementation of projects across all of our web touch points (retool.com, our blog, the community, documentation, and more) from start to finish. Working with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll collaborate on design approaches and communicate technical trade-offs. You’ll audit our current tech stack and content management infrastructure and design a path forward that scales with our aggressive goals and makes it easier for others to contribute.

Most importantly, you’ll sweat the details: whether it’s implementing a complex React animation, shaving seconds off of time to interactive, or improving the reliability of the build pipeline.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH:

A small web engineering team focused on Retool’s web presence, you’ll be partnering closely with design, marketing, and growth to build a robust platform that helps us bring new features to market, deliver content to our customers and community, and ensure that visitors can discover and learn about Retool.

You’ll beLead development and operational efforts for Retool’s web presence, building performant, reliable, and maintainable solutions across retool.com, our blog, community, docs, and more

Partner closely with the design team to implement beautiful, groundbreaking web experiences of exceptional quality

Collaborate with the marketing and growth teams to shape our content infrastructure, optimize relevance for our technical audience, and integrate with the tools that power Retool’s go-to-market plans

Help establish and maintain a design system for Retool’s web presence

Stay educated on the latest in web development methodologies and new technologies, continually working to deliver an innovative web presence that stands apart in presentation and performance joining a broader team of Retools who are passionate about serving our customers and enjoy collaborating with each other to build a company from the ground up.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU'LL:

  • Lead development and operational efforts for Retool’s web presence, building performant, reliable, and maintainable solutions across retool.com, our blog, community, docs, and more
  • Partner closely with the design team to implement beautiful, groundbreaking web experiences of exceptional quality
  • Collaborate with the marketing and growth teams to shape our content infrastructure, optimize relevance for our technical audience, and integrate with the tools that power Retool’s go-to-market plans
  • Help establish and maintain a design system for Retool’s web presence
  • Stay educated on the latest in web development methodologies and new technologies, continually working to deliver an innovative web presence that stands apart in presentation and performance

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience with web standards and the modern full-stack web environment(HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, CSS pre/post-processors, CSS-in-JS libraries, build systems, and dependency management)
  • Strong knowledge of the Jamstack paradigm, including the Gatsby and Next.js frameworks and the Contentful CMS platform
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Knowledge of current web accessibility standards and requirements
  • A track record of successfully collaborating with design teams and/or personal experience designing websites, along with a relentless passion for nailing the details
  • Basic familiarity with analytics and web monitoring platforms(like Google Analytics and Amplitude) and marketing concepts such as conversion, A/B testing, and lead generation
  • Deep understanding of technical search engine optimization(SEO), how search engines work and interpret site architecture
  • Ability to balance many simultaneous projects and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment

Our Hiring Process

Recruiting processes can feel impersonal and one-sided. We’d like to get to know you, and for you to get to know us. Here’s what you can expect from a typical interview loop, though some roles may have more or fewer interviews.

  1. Intro call. An introductory call with a recruiter or hiring manager to learn more about what you’re looking for, the role, and whether it’s a good fit. This is a great step to ask any questions you may have about the team or the company!
  2. Take-home exercise or follow-up call. This intermediate step helps us get to know more about you and closely reflects what you would be doing day-to-day in the role. This interview will be catered to the respective job in order to assess the specific skill sets for that role.
  3. Onsite interview. A round of 3-5 “onsite” interviews with the team you would potentially be joining and a cross-functional partner or two. We’ll make sure you have a clear understanding of what to expect during the onsite interviews so that you are fully prepared for this final step.

Benefits

We’re investing in you.

  • Health - Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits.
  • Good food - Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices.
  • Education - $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.).
  • Fertility support - We offer a $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility needs as well as fertility education through Carrot.
  • Flexible PTO - Take the time you need to recharge!
  • Paid parental leave - Family planning support and paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) Matching - Enrollment and matching for our US-based employees.
  • Wellness - Mental health and wellness benefits.
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