Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer

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, CTO