About the role
About Us
Flick is defining the future interface for professional AI-native filmmaking.
- Founded by an engineer who helped build Instagram Stories and an award-winning filmmaker, Flick brings technology and artistry together.
- We are well funded by leading investors, including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, and other top-tier VCs.
- Checkout our launch video
- Award-winning AI films created using Flick
The Role
As a founding full stack engineer at Flick, you’ll build the core infrastructure powering AI-native filmmaking — from media generation interface to scalable backend systems. You will work directly with the founders, and have the opportunity to shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.
What you’ll do
- Design and build scalable backend systems for media generation, storage, and delivery.
- Architect APIs and services that power real-time, stateful creative workflows.
- Own end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
- Ensure high performance and reliability across complex, async-heavy systems.
- Build and maintain integrations with AI model providers and compute platforms.
- Establish strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and code quality.
- Work closely with product and frontend teams to ship cohesive experiences.
Requirements
- Strong experience in system design and backend architecture at scale.
- Proficiency across the stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node, Python, modern web frameworks).
- Experience building and maintaining .
