Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

The role

Founding front-end engineer will lead the development of the core experience of Flick including the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. You will work directly with founders to shape the interface for AI visual storytelling.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and development of editor UI from the ground up
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows
• Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and AI backend teams
• Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience
• 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
• Passion for creating fast, intuitive, and beautiful creative interfaces
• Startup mindset: thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, 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
• Open-source contributions and personal coding projects outside regular work

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship available

About the company

Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. It was founded by Ray Wang and Zoey Zhang and is well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed.