Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
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What you need
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.
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About Flick
Flick is an AI-powered platform reimagining the future of filmmaking. It offers creators an open canvas where words, images, and moving pictures can grow and connect freely. Instead of working through prompts or rigid tools, filmmakers engage in a dialogue with an “AI director,” allowing stories, characters, and worlds to unfold organically. By weaving together multiple advanced models, Flick enables a process that feels intuitive, narrative-driven, and collaborative.
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