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Support Engineer, Night Shift

We're making it easier for engineers to build custom, internal software. Software has transformed industries, but it's currently too expensive to plan, build, and maintain. And that's a shame, because it's so useful! Our goal is to make this large class of software faster, cheaper, and more enjoyable to build.

Retool

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 87k-146k USD

GB and US only

ABOUT RETOOL

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 don’t 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, we’re on a mission to bring good software to everyone. We’re 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 that’s 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

In the last year, we’ve grown our customer base over 5x and continued to enhance our product. As a result, we have more questions, feedback, and tickets coming in than ever before from developers using Retool. As we continue to grow, we’re adding more customer-centric support engineers to help our customers build the systems and tools they need to run their business.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You’ll work with other support engineers and software engineers to diagnose, troubleshoot, and solve customer problems. You’ll also help train new coworkers on supporting our users. Support is a small team today, but rapidly expanding to match our customer growth.

You’ll be joining a broader team of Retools who are passionate about serving our customers, enjoy collaborating to build an incredibly innovative product, and partake in some occasional-but-well-intentioned sarcasm. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Support Engineer at Retool, you’ll communicate with developers of all sizes to help unblock technical issues. You’ll help answer their more difficult Retool development questions, troubleshoot connecting to many kinds of databases or APIs, and brainstorm app structure and best practices. Often, this will mean researching new topics and reporting back to the customer on the best approach to achieve their goals.

The working hours for this role are from 5pm to 2am PST.

Retool is a broad technical product, so ideally, you are a generalist engineer and enjoy learning new technologies. Our platform supports over 30 integrations, so you’ll constantly encounter novel situations. On a typical day, you might help someone debug a database connection, write examples of JavaScript code for specific customer use cases, troubleshoot data structures, SQL queries, and API authentication—often live or on an impromptu screen-share.

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:

  • 2-4 years of experience working in technical and customer-facing roles
  • Intermediate understanding of JavaScript and web development
  • Experience supporting a SQL or NoSQL database management system
  • Ability to communicate effectively through writing and in person
  • Ability to think on your feet and come up with creative solutions to non-obvious problems
  • Ability to empathize with customer challenges
  • Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in high-availability, production web environments
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, latency bottlenecks, and error handling in web services
  • Ability to diagnose infrastructure-related incidents affecting SaaS uptime, including degraded service performance and regional outages
  • Holds a relevant cloud certification such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, or equivalent.
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and enterprise authentication systems (OAuth 2.0, SAML, Okta).
  • Bonus points if you know React and can fix minor bugs in our codebase

For candidates based in the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, the pay range(s) for this role in each zone 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/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.

Tier 1
$124,200$146,100 USD
Tier 2
$105,600$124,200 USD
Tier 3
$87,000$102,300 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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Salary: 87k-146k USD

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United States +/- 0 hours, and 1 other timezone

About Retool

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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.

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.

Candidate Experience

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.

Set up to help you succeed

Though 80% of us joined remotely during the pandemic, we really like spending time with each other in person and believe in the power of in-person collaboration, creativity, and connection. We are returning in a hybrid capacity this fall in our New York and San Francisco offices.

Employee benefits

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Flexible PTO

Take the time you need to recharge!

Paid parental leave

Family planning support and paid parental leave.

Health

Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits.

Good food

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices.

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201-500 employees

Founded in

2017

Chief executive officer

David Hsu

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