Software Engineer, Workflows
Location: New York, New York, US
Recruiter: Retool
Date posted: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Job Description:
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software: Gartner estimates that up to 50% of all code is written for internal use. This is the operational software for refunding orders, underwriting loans, onboarding employees, analyzing transactions, and providing customer support. But most companies dont have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
At Retool, were on a mission to bring good software to everyone. Were building a new type of development platform that combines the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI, making it dramatically faster to build internal tools. We believe that the future of software development lies in abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks developers waste time on, while creating reusable components that act as a force multiplier for future developers and projects. The result is not just productivity, but good software by default. And thats a mission worth striving for.
Today, our customers span from small startups building their first operational tools to Fortune 500 companies building mission-critical apps for thousands of users across their business. Interested in joining us? Let us know!
WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU
Retool started as a way to address obstacles with internal tools and has grown into a company that solves internal tooling for thousands of companies (big and small). Weve done a lot with a littlewe have a growing engineering team and a laundry list of features and foundational improvements we want to tackle.
To continue our fast-paced growth, we need to build a world-class engineering team. Youll help us get there by owning end-to-end projects, talking with customers, and ultimately supporting the growth of Retool the product and the business.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Retool Workflows is the business automation layer of the Retool platform, designed to help engineers build, manage, and scale backend automations with both speed and flexibility. Workflows sits in the middle of the workflow automation spectrumbridging the gap between lightweight visual builders (like Zapier) and developer-first automation tools (like Airflow).
Our customers use Workflows across four key use case categories:
- Process automation Streamlining approvals, ticketing, compliance checks, and other operational processes.
- Metrics and alerting Triggering notifications, monitoring key business events, and automating incident responses.
- Data integration Connecting, transforming, and synchronizing data across systems.
- Backend-as-a-Service Running headless backend tasks, lightweight APIs, and automation logic.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
As an engineer, you will work closely with product and design teams to build, ship, and iterate new features. Were a hard-working, passionate bunch who are motivated by collaboration, strong results, and bringing the impact of Retool to our customers. When were in the office, we enjoy eating lunch (and occasionally dinner!) together, and weve been known for our lively game nights. But at the root of it all, we come together to show our customers and not-quite-yet customers how Retool can make them and their companies more efficient and successful. If this sounds like a fit, wed love to hear from you!
IN THIS ROLE YOU'LL:
- Improve the user experience of writing and maintaining business logic in Retool Workflows
- Integrate and unify the business logic experience in Retool, creating a cohesive, simple, and powerful platform
- Debug real customer problems + build features for them (e.g. "the Google Sheets integration doesn't support adding rows", and "what's the best way to support that? Via cell ranges, or via a lightweight, home-grown ORM?")
- Find extensible and reliable ways to extend Retool with AI
- Make our distributed compute layer more flexible, more performant, and more secure
- Help assess and recruit future engineers
THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:
- You have 2+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which youve spent in startups
- Youve built, maintained, debugged and scaled distributed systems products
- You have an an interest in rigorous, critical thinking about how to shape user-facing product offerings and features
NICE TO HAVE:
- Youre an expert with Typescript and Node.js
- Youve designed complex data pipelines or asynchronous systems
- Youve right-sized compute clusters, managed autoscaling groups, etc.
- You understand OS-level containerization and execution environments
- Youve built fault-tolerant message queues, worker pools, or distributed value stores
- Youve analyzed and tackled interesting and unusual new workloads
For candidates based in New York, 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 candidates experience and qualifications, and location.
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses 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.
New York
$164,600 $255,000 USD
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.
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