Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

About the role

## About Us

[Flick](https://flick.art) 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[ ](https://youtu.be/K1GgsSnwfow?si=taFwiulaMSu3kPNV)[launch video](https://x.com/flickartHQ/status/2054951575492378672?s=20) * Award-winning [AI films](https://flick.art/tv) 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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full time

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Sunnyvale, CA, US / Remote

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