Retool Hiring for Engineering Manager, Engineering Experience at San Francisco, CA Full Time

Engineering Experience

Team

At Retool, we’re changing the way software is built. We’ve developed the fastest way to build 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 buildevelopment 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!

WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU :

Retool is transformative for building software, but there’s so much more to software beyond the build. We’re not just building products, we’re curating an experience for both our users and the developers driving the solutions they need.

We’re obsessed with streamlining workflows, optimizing processes, and nurturing a culture of engineering excellence that resonates with every developer that touches our product.

As our Engineering Manager for the Engineering Experience team, you’ll lead the charge in enhancing the way our developers work.

Your days will be filled with steering the ship toward smoother pipelines, building infrastructure and tooling, observability, and fostering a collective passion for delivering top-notch code.

This team is working to improve the speed and quality of development in a rapidly scaling environment. As development teams grow and their applications scale in importance, complexity, and usage, your charter will be to create a supportive and efficient ecosystem where our developers can do their best work, while championing practices that elevate our code quality and innovation.

If you’re passionate about empowering developers, creating seamless workflows, and fostering a culture of excellence, we want to hear from you.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL :

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, never settling for mediocrity
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand pain points and opportunities within our development lifecycle
• Design and implement processes and tools that streamline development workflows, from coding to deployment
• Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers, fostering their growth and guiding their contributions.management as appropriate
• Partner with recruiting on building out a diverse team of engineers
• Drive initiatives to enhance testing frameworks, continuous integration, and continuous deployment practices
• Advocate for best practices in code quality, documentation, and overall engineering excellence
• Monitor and analyze developer feedback and metrics to iteratively improve our developer experience

THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING :

• 2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing teams
• Deep technical understanding; we don’t expect you to code, but you should be able to navigate our codebase and infrastructure, as well as engage deeply on design and architecture
• A history of orienting teams and setting strategy toward engineering goals, with a bias toward impact and velocity
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, manage stakeholders, communicate in a structured manner, and drive maximal accountability and excellence
• Deep understanding of modern software development practices, including CI / CD and testing methodologies
• Thoughtfulness around engineering culture, process, and identity
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• A passion for improving developer productivity and a commitment to creating a positive and inclusive engineering culture

Retool offers generous benefits to all employees. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!

At this time, Retool is only set up to employ in the US and UK.