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Hiring now
23
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, Coatue
Momentum
32/100
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this month
a posting or a news item
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Jun 17
Launched Retool launches a full-stack React AI app builder Retool Blog · retool
Dec 15, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes · 398 points
Sep 13, 2023
On the Hacker News front page When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished · 393 points
Mar 17, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic · 443 points
Sep 9, 2022
On the Hacker News front page What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) · 955 points
Feb 5, 2020
On the Hacker News front page What's SAP? · 1221 points
Aug 8, 2019
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
Jan 2017
Went through Y Combinator
2017
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How Retool hires
Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
121 days
Ghost roles
9%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Retool scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 23 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 9% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 121 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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News
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Retool's 2026 Build vs. Buy Report Reveals 35% of Enterprises Have Already Replaced SaaS With Custom Software
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How Retool uses Loop to turn logs into AI roadmap decisions - Customers
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Retool's New AI-Powered App Builder Lets Non-Developers Build Enterprise Apps
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Retool over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
45
Postings analysed
22
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript41%
TypeScript32%
Python23%
SQL18%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js23%
Databases
PostgreSQL14%
Snowflake5%
Cloud & platforms
AWS27%
GCP14%
Azure9%
Kubernetes9%
AI & ML
LLM14%
Claude5%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$306k
Typical range
$200k – $326k
Open positions
19
17
Jobs
Junior
11.8%
Middle
17.6%
Senior
58.8%
Architect
11.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $306k | $306k |
| Middle | 3 | $285k | $285k |
| Senior | 10 | $306k | $200k – $318k |
| Architect | 2 | $320k | $315k – $326k |
Highest paying role
Director, Business Operations
$326k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Retool
By role, level and city, against the market · 19 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
23
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
121 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
10/17/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
36% ▲
Product
27% ▲
Leadership
9% ▲
Design
9% ▼
HR
9% ▲
Marketing
9% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added RAG to stack
Sep 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Sep 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Salt Lake City
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
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Hiring now
2
Countries
2
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San Francisco
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21 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 62% engineering $294k Avg Salary
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London
United Kingdom
Regional office
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days
hires for HR, Sales, Solutions
Earlier presence
Salt Lake City, United States
New York, United States
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