Frontend Engineer

Build internal tools fast. A Y Combinator-graduate backed by Sequoia Capital that helps businesses build internal tools efficiently.
Frontend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
101 - 500 Employees
6+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Frontend Engineer

Retool is seeking a Frontend Engineer to join their growing team in San Francisco. This role is crucial in building and maintaining their platform that enables companies to build internal tools efficiently. The position offers an opportunity to work with a small but mighty engineering team that's poised for significant growth.

As a Frontend Engineer at Retool, you'll be at the intersection of technical excellence and user experience, working on a platform used by thousands of customers for their operations. The role involves building both an interface for creating internal tools and the runtime for those applications, requiring a deep understanding of frontend technologies and performance optimization.

The ideal candidate will bring 5+ years of frontend development experience, with strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and React. You'll be working in a collaborative environment, partnering closely with designers and other engineering teams to create flexible, composable components and libraries. The role demands someone who can balance technical excellence with user needs, having both the ability to optimize performance and create intuitive interfaces.

What makes this opportunity unique is the chance to work on a product that's fundamentally changing how companies build internal tools. Retool, backed by prestigious investors including Sequoia Capital and founders of companies like Github and Stripe, is profitable and growing rapidly. You'll be joining at a crucial time as they scale their engineering team and continue to evolve their product.

The role offers the opportunity to own end-to-end projects, interact directly with customers, and have a significant impact on both the product and business growth. If you're passionate about frontend development, love solving complex technical challenges, and want to be part of a fast-growing, customer-focused team, this role at Retool could be your next career move.

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Responsibilities For Frontend Engineer

  • Build and extend the core functionality of the application editor
  • Collaborate closely with design team to craft product features
  • Scope, build, test, document and ship new features to production
  • Contribute to product roadmap planning
  • Work with React and Typescript on Node.js backend
  • Maintain performance optimization through Core React, Web Workers and WebAssembly

Requirements For Frontend Engineer

TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Node.js
  • 5+ years experience in professional front-end development
  • Significant experience working with Javascript/Typescript and React
  • Previous experience working closely with designers, building flexible, composable libraries and components
  • Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
  • A record of identifying valuable projects, communicating the strategy for them, and executing on them autonomously
  • A customer-first mindset
  • Habit of introspection and understanding what's helped you be successful in the past

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