Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer at Flick (F25) $100K - $200K • 0.10% - 1.00% Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking Sunnyvale, CA, US / Remote Full-time Will sponsor 3+ years About Flick Flick is building the future interface for AI native filmmaking. It lets people create films completely using AI on a canvas with a AI agent working with you. Think of Figma + Cursor, but for AI filmmaking. Founded by a founding engineer who built the first version of Instagram Stories and a professional filmmaker whose AI films won 20+ film festival awards. Funded by YC, and other top VCs (total of $6M) Our recent launch got overwhelming positive feedback and we are growing very fast on revenue: Watch our launch video Testimony Launch Post About the role The Role As our founding front-end engineer, you’ll build and ship the core editing experience of Flick — our canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. 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. Technology Our tech stack include Typescript, React, WebGL for front-end, Python based Agent framework written by our own. We also train our own AI image/video models.