[HN Gopher] Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers
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       Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers
        
       Hi HN,  We're Retool (https://retool.com), a fast way of building
       internal tools. We launched on HN around three years ago
       (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Here's a 3 minute
       demo video: https://d3399nw8s4ngfo.cloudfront.net/videos/intro-to-
       retool.mp4.  You can think of Retool as something like Visual
       Basic, but in the cloud. The idea is that there are lots of
       internal applications that businesses need, and today, build from
       scratch (probably via React). But while React is great for many
       things (our landing page is built in React, our product is built in
       React, etc.), it's possible that it might be overkill for building
       a simple form that POSTs data back to your API. (Who _wants_ to
       worry about debouncing the submit button, handling errors from the
       backend, and authenticating and authorizing the users?!)  Instead
       of building from scratch, Retool gives you the best components for
       internal apps (e.g. a `JSON Schema Form` component:
       https://docs.retool.com/docs/working-with-json-schema-form, which
       consumes JSON from your backend and auto-generates a form, so you
       can change your form programmatically), a drag-and-drop interface
       for assembling your UI, a FRP-like state management system (you can
       refer to any component and its properties, within {{ }}, wherein
       you can also write sandboxed JS), as well as a bunch of admin
       features (authentication via an SSO provider, authorization via
       groups synced from your SSO provider, and audit logs) that all
       internal applications should have.  A surprising amount of software
       engineering resources go into internal applications! If you think
       about it, almost all the engineers at "traditional" companies (e.g.
       Disney, PitneyBowes, Mercedes Benz, Bosch, Progressive, or NBC; all
       paying customers of Retool) are working on internal applications.
       It'd probably be fair to say a majority of all software in the
       world is internal-facing. And our goal is to get all that software,
       built (faster, and in a more delightful way) with Retool.  We're
       hiring for many roles, but particularly interested in engineers,
       engineering managers, engineering directors, and engineers who
       enjoy talking with customers (whether pre or post-sales). Retool is
       a highly technical product, and we especially like engineers in
       non-engineering-specific roles. (For example, one candidate who
       came in via HN was an engineer, and now works on sales at Retool.
       In the first quarter of this year, he closed $1M of contracts by
       himself.)  Today, we're cash flow-positive, and are around 80
       employees. We've grown approximately 3x in the past year (both in
       terms of revenue and employees), and expect to grow approximately
       3x again next year. In 3 years' time, we expect both revenue and
       headcount to grow approximately 10x from today.  The network at
       Retool is also fairly strong -- our lead investors in the Series B
       were Sequoia, along with Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, as well as John
       and Patrick Collison. Other investors include the founders of
       Github, Gusto, Segment, PagerDuty, Plaid, etc.  I think there's a
       unique opportunity to join Retool now -- we've found product-market
       fit, are cash-flow positive (and growing quickly), but are still a
       small team with a lot of ambiguity and therefore autonomy. Because
       the company itself is growing very rapidly, you'll have a front-row
       seat into what building a rapidly scaling startup looks like.
       You'll also get to have a very significant impact today (since
       we're so small, and big believers in enabling people), but also
       grow into a larger impact as the company itself grows.  We think
       the market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that
       Retool has a promising shot at capturing much of it. We have a
       product that works, that customers mostly like (although we have
       _so much_ work to do, still), and whose usage is growing rapidly.
       And we'd love to potentially work with you!  We've made multiple
       hires from HN in the past, so we're posting here. But if you know
       any friends who are interested, feel free to tell them to reach out
       as well. Please email me at david AT retool with "HN" in the
       subject line.  Thanks!
        
       Author : dvdhsu
       Score  : 1 points
       Date   : 2021-08-31 21:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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