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Software Engineer, AI Agents

Retool· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$163.8k - $260.1kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building Retool’s Agents product to enable customers to automate real business workflows with AI, shaping agent orchestration, memory, safety boundaries, and observability within a JavaScript/TypeScript stack.

Responsibilities

  • 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)

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Ability to make technical decisions quickly, while looping in key stakeholders
  • 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

Skills

Required:JavaScript/TypeScriptFrontend developmentBackend development
Nice to have:Agent orchestration

Benefits

  • Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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