WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU

The Logic team is seeking a highly experienced Engineering Manager to manage a portfolio of dynamic, impactful products and user experiences. Leading our Logic team, you'll own Retool’s logic layer from the building experience to the efficient, fast, and reliable execution of customer’s queries and code.

The Logic team’s work spans the stack, and across product lines. The team is responsible for the user experience of writing business logic in Retool’s flagship web application builder, bootstrapping and expanding new product lines related to business logic like Retool Workflows, enabling the reuse of logic across the platform, as well as the distributed infrastructure required to connect to our customer’s data sources in a scalable, secure, and performant ways.

At Retool, we like to emphasize the word "leader" — the right leader for Logic is expected to take ownership, get decisions made, keep our energy and tempo up, and continuously improve the environment for our engineers.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Communicate and collaborate effectively with Product and Design counterparts
• Manage a fullstack team of engineers; support the team by identifying growth opportunities, providing continuous feedback, and performance management as appropriate
• Establish and define your team's strategy to ensure execution maximizes business impact
• Meet with customers to better understand product sentiment 
• Introduce scalable, repeatable processes that help engineering and product teams deliver a successful product
• Partner with recruiting on building out a diverse team of exceptionally motivated engineers

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING: 

• 2 years of experience successfully leading and managing teams
• A strong ability to champion an engineering team through macro process changes 
• Deep technical understanding; we don’t expect you to code, but you should be able to navigate our codebase and engage deeply on design and architecture
• A history of orienting teams and setting strategy toward engineering goals, with a bias toward impact
• Experience successfully recruiting, building, and scaling teams
• A propensity to operate as a business-owner — caring deeply about our customers, product, and team
• Thoughtfulness around engineering culture, process, and identity
• Proficiency in navigating through ambiguity, managing stakeholders, communicating in a structured manner, as well as driving maximal accountability and excellence
• A collaborative skillset to partner effectively with product, design, and go-to-market teams