Texture is revolutionizing the energy sector by creating a unified data network. Backed by experienced founders and ample funding, we're on track to change how energy data is accessed, used, and leveraged. Our mission is to make energy data more accessible and user-friendly, enabling organizations to make smarter decisions that benefit both their operations and the environment.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Texture, you'll collaborate closely with our Chief Technology Officer to establish the foundational infrastructure of our platform, spanning both frontend and backend development.
You enjoy being a generalist and are able to work on both the frontend, backend, and anything else we need to build the platform to delight developers
You are able to operate independently without much oversight
You are able to work across a wide variety of technologies and systems and stitch them together to solve problems and make magic
You have tons of experience using developer platforms so you can help us build our own to be best-in-class
You independently research and stay up-to-date with new technologies and engineering methods
You love solving interesting problems
At least 5 years of experience in engineering working across the stack
Strong technical expertise in the relevant field
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work collaboratively with other departments and stakeholders
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with project management tools and methodologies
Bonus for experience operating in a startup environment
Competitive salary and benefits
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in the energy sector
A collaborative and innovative work environment
Career growth and development opportunities
Texture is revolutionizing the energy sector by creating a unified data network. Backed by experienced founders and ample funding, we're on track to change how energy data is accessed, used, and leveraged. Our mission is to make energy data more accessible and user-friendly, enabling organizations to make smarter decisions that benefit both their operations and the environment.
Your primary role will involve designing, constructing, and optimizing our data pipelines to support various data workflows. You will work with both structured and unstructured data, ensuring high data quality and availability for complex analysis by data scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders.
You have expertise in data warehousing solutions, and you're comfortable with technologies like BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, or Snowflake
You're proficient in ELT processes and tools like dbt
You have experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, or Flink
You can write SQL queries in your sleep and have experience with programming languages like Python
You’re familiar with real-time analytics and can work seamlessly with data streaming technologies like Kafka or Kinesis
Data security is second nature to you, and you understand best practices around encryption and secure data transfer
You're highly analytical and are comfortable working closely with data scientists to make data actionable
At least 6 years of relevant experience in data engineering
Proven track record of building and optimizing data pipelines and architectures
Demonstrable experience in big data technologies and data warehousing
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
Competitive salary and a compelling benefits package
A front-row seat in the revolutionizing of energy data management
Ample room for career growth, as you'd be one of our pioneer hires in the data department
Texture is looking for an Account Executive to help drive growth across the energy and utility ecosystem. This role is responsible for building relationships with prospective customers, managing complex sales cycles, and partnering closely with internal teams to deliver value-driven solutions.
The ideal candidate is commercially minded, highly organized, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. Experience in enterprise software, energy, utilities, or infrastructure-related industries is a plus, but not required.
Responsibilities
Develop and manage a pipeline of prospective customers and strategic accounts
Lead customer conversations from initial engagement through contract execution
Understand customer business needs and communicate the value of Texture’s platform and services
Coordinate internally with product, implementation, and leadership teams throughout the sales process
Maintain accurate pipeline forecasting and account activity
Represent Texture at customer meetings, industry events, and conferences
Build long-term relationships with customers and partners
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in sales, business development, or account management
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience managing multiple opportunities and priorities simultaneously
Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Comfort navigating complex customer organizations and enterprise sales cycles
CRM experience preferred
What We Offer
Competitive compensation package
Equity opportunity
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible work environment
Opportunity to work on critical infrastructure and emerging energy technologies
Compensation
Base salary range: $125,000 – $200,000 annually, plus commission and equity opportunities.
Texture is an equal opportunity employer and values diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.
You’ll be the first dedicated product designer at Texture, shaping how an entire industry transitions to modern software.
We’re building the operating system for the grid—the software layer that utilities, device manufacturers, grid operators, and everyday consumers use to manage and participate in distributed energy at scale. You’re not designing one product; you’re designing an ecosystem of interconnected surfaces for different users with different needs.
Dashboards & Analytics: Real-time operational views, performance metrics, system health
Maps & Physical World: Geographic visualization of device fleets, grid topology, location-aware workflows
Enterprise Tools: Complex workflows for operators managing incidents, dispatching commands, auditing activity
Consumer Experiences: Enrollment flows, device connection, onboarding that hides technical complexity
Service Design: End-to-end journeys across organizations, roles, and touchpoints
Real-Time Collaboration: Live cursors, multiplayer editing, and shared workspaces for multiple users
This is the kind of work that stretches you: data-dense interfaces that need to be fast and clear, AI-native workflows where humans and automation share responsibility, simple-feeling consumer experiences despite deep technical complexity, and enterprise tools where the stakes are real and the details matter.
A designer with exceptional taste and strong instincts who can own our product's design direction and ship high-quality work at the pace of a fast-moving team.
Own end-to-end product design across multiple surfaces—from early concepts through detailed specs and implementation support
Design data-heavy interfaces including dashboards, tables, maps, and timelines that make complex systems understandable and actionable
Design AI-native experiences: conversational interfaces, intelligent suggestions, and workflows that blend human judgment with automation
Create consumer-facing flows: enrollment, device connection, and onboarding that feel simple despite technical complexity
Build and evolve our design system (140+ components and growing)
Ship fast with high standards—prototype quickly, make decisions, and deliver without endless iteration
Want to own the whole thing, not just a slice
Move quickly and make decisions without waiting for perfect information
Are comfortable with ambiguity—can turn a half-formed problem into a great experience
Can shift between dense enterprise tools and simple consumer flows without losing quality
Collaborate deeply with product and engineering (not just handing off specs)
Are comfortable being customer-facing—talking to users, understanding their needs, and translating them into the right design
Care about craft, but care even more about shipping the right thing
5+ years designing complex products, ideally B2B or enterprise
Strong systems thinking and excellent visual design
Proficiency in Figma and component-based design systems
Experience with AI/ML products, copilot-style interfaces, or generative UI
Experience with developer tools, APIs, or platform products
Frontend familiarity (React, HTML/CSS)
Early-stage startup experience (0→1)
Experience in energy, utilities, or infrastructure software
Competitive salary and benefits
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in the energy sector
Collaborative and innovative work environment
Career growth and development opportunities
New York City preferred. Flexible for the right candidate.
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As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll own critical product areas that help modern energy companies—utilities, VPP operators, retail energy providers, and grid services teams—monitor, coordinate, and run their operations in a single workspace. You’ll translate complex operational reality (meters, devices, sites, grid topology, events, dispatch, reporting, and compliance) into clear, shippable product direction—and ship with a fast, high-ownership team.
What you’ll help deliver:
An intuitive control center for grid operations—where teams can see an issue, act, and confirm the result without switching systems
Intelligence and automation that turn grid signal into action: anomaly detection, prioritization, recommended next steps, and workflow automation
End-to-end operational workflows across grid operations (coordination, dispatch/telemetry, performance, reporting, and auditability)
Utility-grade platform capabilities: data ingestion/modeling, auditability, access controls, reliability, and security-by-design
Cross-surface experiences spanning dashboards/analytics, maps & topology, operational tables, alerts, and collaboration
You’ll be responsible for:
Owning product strategy and execution for one or more core areas (e.g., program operations, grid visibility, dispatch/telemetry, reporting, data modeling)
Turning messy real-world problems into crisp product bets: problem framing, success metrics, sequencing, and clear tradeoffs
Working deeply with engineering and design to ship: PRDs/specs, prototypes, edge cases, rollout plans, and iteration loops
Leading cross-functional execution: aligning stakeholders, unblocking the team, managing dependencies, and driving decisions from kickoff through delivery
Building operator-grade UX: fast, trustworthy, data-dense interfaces with clear states, audit trails, and predictable behavior
Defining the “system of action”: how insights become decisions, and decisions become actions (and how we prove outcomes)
Building AI-native operator experiences: human-in-the-loop automation, assistive copilots, and intelligence that’s explainable, auditable, and safe
Partnering with go-to-market and customer teams to capture feedback, de-risk releases, and tell a clear product story
Establishing product hygiene: roadmap clarity, dependency management, customer comms, and internal alignment
A high-agency product leader who can operate in ambiguity, move quickly, and raise the bar on product quality and outcomes.
You’ll thrive here if you:
Want to own the whole thing, not a slice of it
Can reason about complex systems (data, operations, workflow) and communicate simply
Make good decisions with imperfect information—and course-correct fast
Sweat the details that make software trustworthy for operators (states, permissions, auditability, failure modes)
Love collaborating with design and engineering as a single product team
Enjoy being customer-facing: discovery calls, workflow mapping, and turning feedback into product leverage
Requirements:
5+ years in product management, with experience shipping complex software (B2B, enterprise, platform, or workflow-heavy products)
Demonstrated ownership of product releases: planning and sequencing, quality bars, launch readiness, rollout/flagging, and post-release iteration
Proven ability to define and ship end-to-end workflows (not just isolated features)
Strong product thinking: crisp problem framing, prioritization, and measurable outcomes
Strong communication: clear writing, clear specs, and strong cross-functional alignment
Experience with energy, utilities, VPPs, DERMS, AMI/SCADA, GIS, or operational analytics
Experience building intelligent products (ML, rules engines, anomaly detection, or copilot-style workflows), including evaluation/metrics and human-in-the-loop design
Experience building SaaS product surfaces like activity feeds, notifications, inboxes, and real-time collaboration/multiplayer workflows
Experience shipping map-based and geo/spatial product experiences (layers, topology, geospatial search, and location-aware workflows)
Experience building data products: ingestion/modeling, data quality, governance, or auditability
Experience with security/compliance requirements in enterprise environments (SOC 2, SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs)
Technical fluency (APIs, event-driven systems, integrations) and comfort partnering deeply with engineering
Early-stage startup experience (0→1, building while scaling)
Sponsored team lunches (twice monthly, tied to demo days)
Flexible paid time off (20 days minimum encouraged annually)
12 weeks paid parental leave
Up to 2 weeks paid bereavement leave
Medical, dental, and vision fully covered for employees and families (employees contribute $1/month)
Company-provided life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability
Pre-tax benefits (FSA, HSA, commuter benefits, dependent care)
Well-being & mental health support
NYC preferred. Flexible for the right candidate.
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You’ll translate complex operational reality (meters, devices, sites, grid topology, events, dispatch, reporting, and compliance) into clear, shippable product direction—and ship with a fast, high-ownership team.\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll help deliver:\n\n - An intuitive control center for grid operations—where teams can see an issue, act, and confirm the result without switching systems\n\n - Intelligence and automation that turn grid signal into action: anomaly detection, prioritization, recommended next steps, and workflow automation\n\n - End-to-end operational workflows across grid operations (coordination, dispatch/telemetry, performance, reporting, and auditability)\n\n - Utility-grade platform capabilities: data ingestion/modeling, auditability, access controls, reliability, and security-by-design\n\n - Cross-surface experiences spanning dashboards/analytics, maps & topology, operational tables, alerts, and collaboration\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n\n\nYou’ll be responsible for:\n\n - Owning product strategy and execution for one or more core areas (e.g., program operations, grid visibility, dispatch/telemetry, reporting, data modeling)\n\n - Turning messy real-world problems into crisp product bets: problem framing, success metrics, sequencing, and clear tradeoffs\n\n - Working deeply with engineering and design to ship: PRDs/specs, prototypes, edge cases, rollout plans, and iteration loops\n\n - Leading cross-functional execution: aligning stakeholders, unblocking the team, managing dependencies, and driving decisions from kickoff through delivery\n\n - Building operator-grade UX: fast, trustworthy, data-dense interfaces with clear states, audit trails, and predictable behavior\n\n - Defining the “system of action”: how insights become decisions, and decisions become actions (and how we prove outcomes)\n\n - Building AI-native operator experiences: human-in-the-loop automation, assistive copilots, and intelligence that’s explainable, auditable, and safe\n\n - Partnering with go-to-market and customer teams to capture feedback, de-risk releases, and tell a clear product story\n\n - Establishing product hygiene: roadmap clarity, dependency management, customer comms, and internal alignment\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\nA high-agency product leader who can operate in ambiguity, move quickly, and raise the bar on product quality and outcomes.\n\n\n\nYou’ll thrive here if you:\n\n - Want to own the whole thing, not a slice of it\n\n - Can reason about complex systems (data, operations, workflow) and communicate simply\n\n - Make good decisions with imperfect information—and course-correct fast\n\n - Sweat the details that make software trustworthy for operators (states, permissions, auditability, failure modes)\n\n - Love collaborating with design and engineering as a single product team\n\n - Enjoy being customer-facing: discovery calls, workflow mapping, and turning feedback into product leverage\n\nRequirements:\n\n - 5+ years in product management, with experience shipping complex software (B2B, enterprise, platform, or workflow-heavy products)\n\n - Demonstrated ownership of product releases: planning and sequencing, quality bars, launch readiness, rollout/flagging, and post-release iteration\n\n - Proven ability to define and ship end-to-end workflows (not just isolated features)\n\n - Strong product thinking: crisp problem framing, prioritization, and measurable outcomes\n\n - Strong communication: clear writing, clear specs, and strong cross-functional alignment\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\n - Experience with energy, utilities, VPPs, DERMS, AMI/SCADA, GIS, or operational analytics\n\n - Experience building intelligent products (ML, rules engines, anomaly detection, or copilot-style workflows), including evaluation/metrics and human-in-the-loop design\n\n - Experience building SaaS product surfaces like activity feeds, notifications, inboxes, and real-time collaboration/multiplayer workflows\n\n - Experience shipping map-based and geo/spatial product experiences (layers, topology, geospatial search, and location-aware workflows)\n\n - Experience building data products: ingestion/modeling, data quality, governance, or auditability\n\n - Experience with security/compliance requirements in enterprise environments (SOC 2, SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs)\n\n - Technical fluency (APIs, event-driven systems, integrations) and comfort partnering deeply with engineering\n\n - Early-stage startup experience (0→1, building while scaling)\n\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n\n - Sponsored team lunches (twice monthly, tied to demo days)\n\n - Flexible paid time off (20 days minimum encouraged annually)\n\n - 12 weeks paid parental leave\n\n - Up to 2 weeks paid bereavement leave\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision fully covered for employees and families (employees contribute $1/month)\n\n - Company-provided life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability\n\n - Pre-tax benefits (FSA, HSA, commuter benefits, dependent care)\n\n - Well-being & mental health support\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nNYC preferred. Flexible for the right candidate."},{"id":"7873bfd6-279d-4566-9fb7-a1301c9ff083","title":"Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote","secondaryLocations":[{"location":"New York Office","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"New York","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"New York"}}}],"publishedAt":"2026-06-12T22:23:36.238+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"NY","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"New York"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/texture/7873bfd6-279d-4566-9fb7-a1301c9ff083","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/texture/7873bfd6-279d-4566-9fb7-a1301c9ff083/application","descriptionHtml":"Texture is building the operating system for the energy grid.
The grid is the largest machine humans have ever built, and it's running on infrastructure designed for a world where electricity flowed one direction from a few big power plants to a lot of dumb meters. That world is gone. Utilities today need to run real-time grid operations, predict transformer failures before they happen, integrate distributed energy resources, break down decades of data silos, and defer hundreds of millions in capital costs — and they're trying to do all of it on infrastructure that wasn't built for any of it. Texture is the data and software layer that makes the modern grid possible.
We're 14 people, post-Series A, hiring our next Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer.
You'll be embedded with a small group of our customers — smaller, member-owned electric utilities (often rural) and the manufacturers of the energy hardware they buy — from kickoff through production. That means:
Joining our delivery and implementation team on customer calls. On the accounts you're embedded with, you'll understand what the customer actually needs (which is rarely what they first ask for) and you'll own the room when the conversation turns technical.
Owning real software work end-to-end — two steps ahead. A lot of it is integration work: getting customer data onto the platform from new meters, sensors, and OEM devices. But it's broader than that. You'll also build things like energy-accounting and bill-credit reporting, behavioral demand-response programs that nudge end-customers via SMS instead of dispatching hardware, and the data pipelines and infrastructure those features ride on. When a customer brings something new, you don't ship a one-off — you design the reference architecture for things of that kind so the work for this customer becomes the template for the next several. Our customers share more of a common software stack than you'd expect, which is why this approach compounds.
Being the technical voice on new opportunities. When the commercial team is evaluating a deal that touches an unfamiliar data class — say a customer with geothermal asking if Texture can support it — you're the person who does the landscape analysis, identifies the handful of vendors and control mechanisms involved, and decides what we're looking at: a clean platform fit, a services-only engagement, or a new data class worth building reference architecture for. The commercial team is great at understanding customer need; you're the one who can technically assess whether and how Texture should support it.
Support the Head of Delivery + Operations in developing our services-only engagement menu based on feedback loops and technical delivery scope.
Translating between technical and non-technical worlds. Most of our utility customers don't have a deep software team. Explaining \"what the system needs to do\" to people who don't think in software is the actual job. This skill is essential.
Production ownership. What you ship is production code. You share on-call for the systems you build. You're responsible for speccing the work yourself.
Quarterly traveling to conduct in-person implementation and training workshops as needed.
This role reports to the CTO, but is cross-functional and sits on our implementation team, which is led by the Head of Delivery + Operations.
By the end of your first 90 days you should be ramped on Texture's platform and architecture, on the realities of utility and OEM customers, and on what they actually need from software like ours. You should be hopping on calls directly with the technical people on the customer side and driving toward outcomes — not just listening. And you should be 30–60 days into your first reference-architecture project: a new class of data we don't yet support, where you've done the landscape analysis, made the platform-fit-vs-services call, and started building.
10+ years of engineering. You've shipped systems that mattered, repeatedly. You don't need someone to tell you what \"production-ready\" means.
Operates independently. Comfortable owning ambiguity. You don't need a PM or a spec to make good decisions.
Strong communicator, especially to non-technical audiences. This is load-bearing for the role.
Breadth across the stack is a real plus. Backend integration work is the core, but the role naturally pulls in DevOps and infrastructure (we recently stood up a VPN tunnel and supporting infra to connect a customer's on-prem utility-scale battery system), data engineering (energy accounting and bill credits), and a bit of data science (assessing whether a behavioral demand-response push actually changed customer behavior). If you've worked across two or three of those areas, you'll be more effective here. None of them are requirements — judgment and willingness to learn matter more.
Curious about the energy grid. You don't have to come from energy — most of us didn't. But if the words \"co-op utility,\" \"DER,\" \"interconnection queue,\" or \"load shifting\" make you want to learn more, you'll have fun here.
Prior forward-deployed, solutions-engineering, or consulting experience is a plus, not a requirement. Two of our current engineers doing this kind of work hadn't done it before joining Texture and are doing a phenomenal job.
TypeScript, React, Go, Kafka, GraphQL federation, AWS, TimescaleDB.
We've made the bet that great engineers can pick up languages and frameworks. What we hire for is judgment, ownership, and the ability to think across the stack. If you've never written Go and the rest looks familiar, we'll be fine.
Annual base salary: $225,000 – $245,000
Equity: 0.08 – 0.12% common stock options (we'll walk through the specifics in our first conversation)
Benefits: medical, dental, vision (covered), 401(k), flexible PTO
Location: remote-first. We have a great office in NYC and a slight preference for candidates in/near NYC, but it's not a requirement.
Reports to: Victor Quinn, Co-founder and CTO
Send a resume, a LinkedIn, and a 200-word answer to this question:
Describe a time you explained a technical system to a non-technical customer or stakeholder, and what you changed about your explanation when it wasn't landing.
We read every application. We don't do take-home assignments. The loop:
30-min intro with our CTO
30-min with our Head of Delivery + Operations
Two technical-depth conversations with two of our senior engineers
A panel “customer simulation”: a live, simulated customer engagement with several members of the team, followed by their questions for you
Offer
Typical timeline from first conversation to offer: 4 weeks.
Texture is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or partnership status, pregnancy or reproductive decisions, caregiver status, immigration or citizenship status, height, weight, unemployment status, genetic information, arrest or conviction record (consistent with the NYC Fair Chance Act), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, email careers@texturehq.com — we'll make it work.
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Texture is the data and software layer that makes the modern grid possible.\n\nWe're 14 people, post-Series A, hiring our next Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer.\n\n\nWHAT THIS ROLE ACTUALLY IS\n\nYou'll be embedded with a small group of our customers — smaller, member-owned electric utilities (often rural) and the manufacturers of the energy hardware they buy — from kickoff through production. That means:\n\n - Joining our delivery and implementation team on customer calls. On the accounts you're embedded with, you'll understand what the customer actually needs (which is rarely what they first ask for) and you'll own the room when the conversation turns technical.\n\n - Owning real software work end-to-end — two steps ahead. A lot of it is integration work: getting customer data onto the platform from new meters, sensors, and OEM devices. But it's broader than that. You'll also build things like energy-accounting and bill-credit reporting, behavioral demand-response programs that nudge end-customers via SMS instead of dispatching hardware, and the data pipelines and infrastructure those features ride on. When a customer brings something new, you don't ship a one-off — you design the reference architecture for things of that kind so the work for this customer becomes the template for the next several. Our customers share more of a common software stack than you'd expect, which is why this approach compounds.\n\n - Being the technical voice on new opportunities. When the commercial team is evaluating a deal that touches an unfamiliar data class — say a customer with geothermal asking if Texture can support it — you're the person who does the landscape analysis, identifies the handful of vendors and control mechanisms involved, and decides what we're looking at: a clean platform fit, a services-only engagement, or a new data class worth building reference architecture for. The commercial team is great at understanding customer need; you're the one who can technically assess whether and how Texture should support it.\n\n - Support the Head of Delivery + Operations in developing our services-only engagement menu based on feedback loops and technical delivery scope.\n\n - Translating between technical and non-technical worlds. Most of our utility customers don't have a deep software team. Explaining \"what the system needs to do\" to people who don't think in software is the actual job. This skill is essential.\n\n - Production ownership. What you ship is production code. You share on-call for the systems you build. You're responsible for speccing the work yourself.\n\n - Quarterly traveling to conduct in-person implementation and training workshops as needed.\n\nThis role reports to the CTO, but is cross-functional and sits on our implementation team, which is led by the Head of Delivery + Operations.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT 90 DAYS LOOKS LIKE\n\nBy the end of your first 90 days you should be ramped on Texture's platform and architecture, on the realities of utility and OEM customers, and on what they actually need from software like ours. You should be hopping on calls directly with the technical people on the customer side and driving toward outcomes — not just listening. And you should be 30–60 days into your first reference-architecture project: a new class of data we don't yet support, where you've done the landscape analysis, made the platform-fit-vs-services call, and started building.\n\n\nWHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 10+ years of engineering. You've shipped systems that mattered, repeatedly. You don't need someone to tell you what \"production-ready\" means.\n\n - Operates independently. Comfortable owning ambiguity. You don't need a PM or a spec to make good decisions.\n\n - Strong communicator, especially to non-technical audiences. This is load-bearing for the role.\n\n - Breadth across the stack is a real plus. Backend integration work is the core, but the role naturally pulls in DevOps and infrastructure (we recently stood up a VPN tunnel and supporting infra to connect a customer's on-prem utility-scale battery system), data engineering (energy accounting and bill credits), and a bit of data science (assessing whether a behavioral demand-response push actually changed customer behavior). If you've worked across two or three of those areas, you'll be more effective here. None of them are requirements — judgment and willingness to learn matter more.\n\n - Curious about the energy grid. You don't have to come from energy — most of us didn't. But if the words \"co-op utility,\" \"DER,\" \"interconnection queue,\" or \"load shifting\" make you want to learn more, you'll have fun here.\n\nPrior forward-deployed, solutions-engineering, or consulting experience is a plus, not a requirement. Two of our current engineers doing this kind of work hadn't done it before joining Texture and are doing a phenomenal job.\n\n\nSTACK (WE USE IT; YOU DON'T NEED TO COME IN KNOWING IT)\n\nTypeScript, React, Go, Kafka, GraphQL federation, AWS, TimescaleDB.\n\nWe've made the bet that great engineers can pick up languages and frameworks. What we hire for is judgment, ownership, and the ability to think across the stack. If you've never written Go and the rest looks familiar, we'll be fine.\n\n\nCOMP AND LOGISTICS\n\n - Annual base salary: $225,000 – $245,000\n\n - Equity: 0.08 – 0.12% common stock options (we'll walk through the specifics in our first conversation)\n\n - Benefits: medical, dental, vision (covered), 401(k), flexible PTO\n\n - Location: remote-first. We have a great office in NYC and a slight preference for candidates in/near NYC, but it's not a requirement.\n\n - Reports to: Victor Quinn, Co-founder and CTO\n\n\nHOW TO APPLY\n\nSend a resume, a LinkedIn, and a 200-word answer to this question:\n\nDescribe a time you explained a technical system to a non-technical customer or stakeholder, and what you changed about your explanation when it wasn't landing.\n\nWe read every application. We don't do take-home assignments. The loop:\n\n 1. 30-min intro with our CTO\n\n 2. 30-min with our Head of Delivery + Operations\n\n 3. Two technical-depth conversations with two of our senior engineers\n\n 4. A panel “customer simulation”: a live, simulated customer engagement with several members of the team, followed by their questions for you\n\n 5. Offer\n\nTypical timeline from first conversation to offer: 4 weeks.\n\nTexture is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or partnership status, pregnancy or reproductive decisions, caregiver status, immigration or citizenship status, height, weight, unemployment status, genetic information, arrest or conviction record (consistent with the NYC Fair Chance Act), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, email careers@texturehq.com — we'll make it work."}],"apiVersion":"1"}