Founding Creative Technologist


About Texterra

Texterra is building an AI-powered creative platform that interprets visual inspiration and translates it into structured, usable design systems.

We read the signals in your uploaded images and turn intuition into intent. Screenshots, moodboards, and visual worlds become signals of taste, hierarchy, composition, and structure — synthesized into composed systems that give creative direction real form.

Our core capability is Aesthetic Interpretation — the ability to read images as expressions of taste and translate them into usable creative frameworks.

Texterra sits at the intersection of design, technology, and human judgment. We’re early, design-led, and building something ambitious at the foundation of a new creative operating system.


The Role

We’re looking for a Creative Technologist / Design Engineer to join at the founder level and define how Texterra’s Aesthetic Interpretation is expressed in product.

This role lives at the seam between design intent and engineering execution. You’ll work directly with the founder to prototype creative systems, translate abstract ideas into real tools, and shape how AI-driven outputs feel authored, not automated.

You’ll help define the creative language of the product from day one.


What You’ll Be Building

  • Design-to-code systems for layout, SVG, and composition
  • Interactive creative tools that feel intentional and intuitive
  • Interfaces where AI output feels composed, structured, and designed
  • Early prototypes that establish Texterra’s visual language and UX standards

Technical Expertise

  • Strong technical taste — knowing which tools to use, when to build from scratch, and how to architect intelligently
  • Strong front-end experience (React, Next.js, or similar)
  • Comfort working with SVG, Canvas, or creative rendering systems
  • Experience collaborating closely with designers — or being one
  • Ability to move fast while maintaining craft and quality
  • Fluent in Figma and comfortable thinking in systems, components, and interaction logic

Bonus

  • Creative coding or generative systems experience
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted creative workflows

What Sets You Apart

  • You care about taste and visual judgment as much as code
  • You enjoy ambiguity and shaping problems from first principles
  • You take ownership naturally and communicate clearly
  • You’re excited by building tools for creative people, not just shipping features

Stage Reality

This is an early-stage, equity-first role. Cash compensation is limited initially.

This role is best suited for someone who wants real ownership, proximity to decision-making, and meaningful long-term upside. Competitive compensation is planned once funding is secured.

  • Pre-fundraise
  • Small, high-trust team
  • Real ambiguity, real ownership
  • You’ll help define both product and culture

Compensation

  • Meaningful founder-level equity (standard vesting)
  • Competitive salary expected post-fundraise
  • Long-term creative authorship and technical ownership