--- title: 'Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform at Retool' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-enterprise-platform-retool-san-francisco-pq3h2kfqkbzt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform at Retool - **Company:** Retool - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retool/am9icG9zdDp_g7RVqWZQdtXGnfaOKyiR ## Job description ## WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU: We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Retool’s Enterprise Platform team—the team building the platform layer that governs how organizations adopt, secure, and scale Retool. Your team will make it possible for our largest customers to build and run apps, automations, and AI agents confidently across their organizations. The platform spans deployment infrastructure, permissions and access controls, audit logging, admin tooling, API / MCP integrations, and more. As AI agents and AI-powered workflows become central to how enterprises use Retool, this foundation needs to evolve to support new compute and scaling demands, more complex authorization requirements, and new ways of operating software. Your team’s work will directly shape our customers’ ability to trust Retool and expand its use. You’ll lead a team of engineers through technically complex problems, balancing customer needs and execution speed with the long-term architectural soundness of the platform. Working closely with Product, Design, and go-to-market partners, you’ll help set the team’s direction, make clear tradeoffs, and turn enterprise requirements into scalable capabilities. You’ll also build direct relationships with customers to understand how they use Retool, where they encounter friction, and what they need to grow. At Retool, we emphasize the word “leader.” We’re looking for someone who takes ownership, gets decisions made, keeps the team’s energy and tempo up, and continuously improves the environment for our engineers. You’ll pair strong technical judgment with thoughtful people leadership, helping engineers grow while setting a high bar for execution, reliability, and customer impact. ## IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Lead a fullstack team building the capabilities that enable enterprises to adopt, deploy, and scale Retool. - Partner with Product and Design to define the team’s strategy and roadmap, connecting technical investments to customer needs and business impact. - Guide technical design and architecture across access controls, auditability, admin experiences, and integrations. - Help the platform evolve to support AI agents and autonomous workflows, ensuring infrastructure and controls keep pace with increasingly powerful workloads. - Drive execution from scoping through launch and iteration, making tradeoffs, resolving dependencies, and maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and quality. - Work directly with customers and go-to-market partners to understand enterprise requirements and translate them into reusable platform capabilities. - Support engineers through continuous feedback, coaching, growth opportunities, and clear performance expectations. - Build processes that improve delivery and cross-team collaboration, and partner with Recruiting to grow a diverse team of exceptional engineers. ## THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING: - 2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing engineering teams. - Strong technical judgment; we don’t expect you to code regularly, but you should be able to navigate our codebase and engage deeply in design and architecture decisions. - A track record of setting technical direction and delivering complex projects that improve customer outcomes and support business growth. - Platform instincts: the ability to identify common needs across customers and build scalable foundations that support multiple products and use cases. - Sound judgment when balancing delivery speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability. - Experience coaching engineers, managing performance, and recruiting and building strong teams. - A propensity to operate as a business owner, caring deeply about our customers, product, and team. - Comfort navigating ambiguity, making decisions with incomplete information, and holding yourself and others accountable. - Clear, direct communication and the ability to partner effectively across engineering, product, design, and go-to-market teams. ## About Retool ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Retool provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing custom internal software and AI applications by connecting to any database, API, or LLM. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: David Hsu (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Software Development, Enterprise Internal Tools, AI Application Platform - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically developers, IT teams, and business operators building internal software - **Mission or purpose**: To enable companies to build production-ready internal software and AI applications dramatically faster, with enterprise-grade security and governance, so that domain experts and developers alike can solve critical business problems. ## Products & Services - **Retool App Builder**: A low-code platform to build custom internal apps (dashboards, admin panels, CRUD tools) by connecting to databases and APIs. Type: SaaS/Platform. - **Retool Workflows**: A visual automation tool to build and orchestrate complex business processes and backend logic. Type: SaaS/Platform. - **Retool AI**: An AI-powered app generation capability that transforms natural language into production-ready applications, agents, and workflows, integrating with any LLM. Type: AI Feature/Platform. - **Retool Mobile**: A solution to build and deploy internal mobile apps from the same Retool platform. Type: SaaS/Platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last round was Series C). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5 million (as per LinkedIn company data); Total Funding of $141.3 million. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Nat Friedman, John Collison, Daniel Gross. Customers include Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness. - **Growth Signals**: Over 10,000 organizations use Retool. The company has automated over 100 million hours of work. It has 6 offices across the US and UK. Despite a recent headcount reduction (-11% YoY), it maintains a strong brand in the enterprise internal tools space and is aggressively pivoting into AI-powered app generation. ## Competitive Advantages - **Enterprise Governance from Day One**: Unlike point solutions, apps built in Retool are production-ready and pass security reviews, eliminating the need for rebuilds or audit scrambles. - **Deep Data Connectivity**: Securely connects to existing databases, APIs, and internal systems, ensuring apps run on real data with real permissions. - **Unified Platform**: One platform to manage, orchestrate, and scale all internal apps, agents, and workflows, providing centralized visibility and governance for IT. - **Trusted by Large Enterprises**: A strong customer base of high-profile companies (Amazon, Stripe, Brex) serves as a powerful validation of its enterprise readiness. ## Strategic Focus - **AI as the Core Platform**: Retool is positioning itself as the "first enterprise AppGen platform," where AI is used to generate production-ready code from natural language, expanding the definition of "developer" to include analysts and operators. - **Scaling Enterprise Features**: The company is focused on building out governance, security, and platform capabilities to support large-scale deployments across complex organizations. - **International Expansion**: With offices in London and a German-speaking Sales Engineer role, Retool is actively expanding its presence in the European market. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: The company values ambition, intense curiosity, energy, and deep care. They emphasize moving fast, acting like an owner, and being both demanding and supportive. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid model with offices in San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and London. The company believes great work happens when teams collaborate in person. - **Product Impact**: Employees are close to the product and use Retool internally, giving them a direct voice in improving it. The mission is to enable a wider community of builders to create production-grade software safely. - **Hiring Process**: Structured, with initial recruiter/hiring manager chats, a technical evaluation or practical exercise, and a final round of 3–5 interviews. The company aims for transparency and candidate preparation. - **Employee Sentiment**: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 (127 reviews). Strengths include Work-Life Balance (4.1) and Culture (3.7). Compensation (3.4) and Career (3.4) are areas for potential improvement. ## Sources 1. [retool.com](https://retool.com/) 2. [retool.com/careers](https://retool.com/careers) 3. [retool.com/about](https://retool.com/about) 4. [linkedin.com/company/tryretool](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryretool) 5. 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