Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films.

• Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist.
• We are well funded by leading investors, including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, and other top-tier VCs.
• Checkout our launch video
• Award-winning AI film created using Flick
• People talk about us on social

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 ourlaunch video
• Award-winning AI films created using Flick

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.