Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
Summary
Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer at Flick, an AI-native filmmaking startup. Lead development of the core creative canvas, timeline, and node-graph editor, collaborating with founders to shape AI visual storytelling tools.
Compensation: $100k – $200k
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