Founding Full-Stack Engineer & Product Architect

Texterra; Portland (OR); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity-based compensation

Ownership of product and technical方向

Job summary

Texterra in Portland, OR is seeking a founding engineer to own the technical architecture for our AI-powered creative platform. You will shape how visual signals become structured inputs, define data models, and build scalable systems that power our tools.

This is a true founding role with equity-based compensation and limited cash initially. You’ll move fast, balance speed with durable decisions, and influence both product and technical direction at the company’s early stage.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack background with systems and data design.
• Experience building scalable architectures in cloud environments.
• Hands-on with Node.js or Python and modern web stacks.
• Ability to balance speed with durable architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design the technical architecture and translate product vision into a scalable system.
• Define how images become structured inputs and how aesthetic signals are modeled.
• Build core app architecture, APIs, and data flows.
• Develop image ingestion, storage, processing pipelines, and data models.

Skills

Full-stack development

System design

Cloud platforms

Node.js

Python

Architectural decision making

Product thinking

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Texterra in Portland, OR is seeking a founding engineer to own the technical architecture for our AI-powered creative platform. You will shape how visual signals become structured inputs, define data models, and build scalable systems that power our tools.

This is a true founding role with equity-based compensation and limited cash initially. You’ll move fast, balance speed with durable decisions, and influence both product and technical direction at the company’s early stage.