Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

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 our founding front-end engineer, you’ll lead the development of the core experience of Flick — our canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. You will work directly with the founders, and have the opportunity to shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

What you’ll do

• Lead the architecture and development of our editor UI from the ground up (canvas, timeline, node graph, playback).

• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows to validate ideas and user experience.

• Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability.

• Collaborate closely with design, product, and AI backend teams to shape the end-to-end user experience.

• Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team.

Requirements

• Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high-performance web applications.

• Strong expertise with modern front-end tooling (React, TypeScript, build systems, CI/CD).

• Deep experience optimizing complex UX interactions, especially in editors, canvases, visual builders, or multimedia tools.

• Ability to design scalable UI architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state.

• A passion for creating fast, intuitive, and beautiful creative interfaces.

• Startup mindset: you thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, and solve ambiguous problems at scale.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar.

• Love films and art.

• Have contributed in open-source projects, and coding for fun outside of regular work.