[Remote] Application Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pathlabs is an end-to-end digital media partner that supports agencies with digital media campaign planning, execution, optimization, and reporting. The contract Application Engineer will take over and extend the company’s production Retool platform, managing application architecture, permissions, integrations, data alignment, documentation, and ongoing improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own the application layer across our internal and client-facing tooling, including architecture, permissions, and integrations
• Build and extend Retool applications — queries, components, state, and the backend logic behind them
• Design and maintain multi-layer permission and identity systems across connected platforms, ensuring role-based access is enforced consistently end to end and identity is maintained between systems
• Continuously assess existing application architecture for efficiency, scalability, and gaps, and drive improvements as the stack evolves
• Partner with the data team so application behavior stays aligned with the underlying data model and pipeline
• Own the integration of analytics, reporting, and other capabilities into core platforms
• Plan and execute extensions to existing tools, including client-facing surfaces
• Document what you build so it can be maintained, handed off, and extended
• Give clear status updates and flag blockers early

Skills

• * 4+ years building or maintaining internal business applications or integrated tooling environments
• * Substantial hands-on Retool experience. You've built and shipped non-trivial Retool applications
• * You're comfortable with queries and transformers, component state, custom components, and Retool's permissions and source-control models
• * Hands-on experience with permissions architecture across multi-system environments
• * Comfort with relational databases: reading and writing queries, understanding data relationships, and knowing when a schema decision will cause problems later
• * Experience integrating third-party platforms via APIs or embed patterns
• * JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency
• * Ability to work independently from a defined spec, and the judgment to flag when the spec needs to change
• * Demonstrated ability to inherit and extend an existing codebase without needing to rebuild it
• * Strong written communication
• * You use agentic coding tools in real production work — Claude Code, Cursor, or similar — and can speak concretely about where they help and where they get in the way
• * You've used AI-assisted app building in a low-code environment, or you can clearly demonstrate you'd pick it up fast
• * You know which problems belong to an LLM and which belong in deterministic code
• * Experience with embedded analytics or BI platform integrations
• * Digital advertising domain knowledge — media planning, campaign operations, or agency reporting
• * Airtable, Snowflake, or similar
• * Google Cloud Platform
• * Next.js
• * Prior work in an agency, media services company, or another environment with real client deadlines

Benefits

• Fully remote

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