Software Engineer, AI Agents

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You’ll help build Retool’s Agents product – a platform that lets customers create and deploy AI agents that act on real business data and systems. You’ll define how customers automate complex workflows with LLMs, shape the primitives for agent orchestration and monitoring, and partner with product, design, and AI infrastructure teams to bring them to life.

Some examples of what you might work on:

• Modifying our agent orchestration system to handle new modalities like voice, images, or files
• Building abstractions so users can customize agent interactions for their business processes
• Adding long-term memory and learning capabilities while maintaining strict data access boundaries
• Designing new mechanisms for human approval and interaction within agentic systems

Retool is built primarily in JavaScript and TypeScript, Node.js on the backend, and React on the frontend. We’ll look to you to bring your experience to build within this environment and impact our codebase. You’ll also engage in technical decision-making with the team, participate in planning, and help our engineering team expand its skillset. To that end, you’ll also play a key role in helping us grow the team through interviewing potential new team members.

Check out Retool Agents to see what we’re building.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

As an engineer, you will work closely with product and design teams to build, ship, and iterate new features. We’re a hard-working, passionate bunch who are motivated by collaboration, strong results, and bringing the impact of Retool to our customers. When we’re in the office, we enjoy eating lunch (and occasionally dinner!) together, and we’ve 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, we’d love to hear from you!

IN THIS ROLE YOU'LL:

• Build and expand the Retool Agents product, enabling customers to automate real business workflows with AI
• Design and implement the primitives that power agent orchestration, reasoning, and tool execution
• Ship new agent capabilities – from chat-based invocation to workflow triggers and observability features
• Debug customer problems and build features that help them integrate AI safely into their existing systems
• Stay close to the latest LLM and agentic advancements, bringing the best of that technology into Retool
• Work closely with a high-velocity, technically skilled cross-functional team
• Help assess and recruit future engineers
• Work on improving the scalability and performance of Retool’s platform (e.g. frontend performance, query latency, and real-time monitoring)

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:

• 8+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups
• Experience owning technically challenging and demanding cross-functional projects
• Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend (and if you have a preference, we’d love to hear it!)
• Ability to make technical decisions quickly, while looping in key stakeholders, too
• A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building meets their needs
• Habit of introspection and understanding what’s helped you be successful in the past

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience working with LLMs, agents, or AI orchestration frameworks in a production context
• Experience designing or using evals and feedback loops to improve AI systems
• Experience in JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience with PostgreSQL
• Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members, and have previously worked closely with designers

For 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.

Additional 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.

The base pay range for this role is $163,800 – $260,100 per year.

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 and Mexico. To find roles that can be employed in the UK and Mexico, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.

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