Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Role details

About Flick Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Ray Wang (engineer who built Instagram Stories) and Zoey Zhang (award-winning filmmaker). Well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed. The Role Founding front-end engineer. Lead the development of the core experience of Flick — the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. Work directly with founders and shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling. Responsibilities • Lead the architecture and development of 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 end-to-end user experience • 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 Qualifications • 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 Compensation • $100,000 – $200,000 / year + 0.10% – 1.00% equity • Visa sponsorship available