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Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Flick

Sunnyvale, CAFull-timeSeen 1mo agoStill listed 2 days ago

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Sunnyvale, CA
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Full-time
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Job overview

Flick is an AI‑native filmmaking startup seeking a founding front‑end engineer to lead the architecture and development of its editor UI, including canvas, timeline, and node‑graph tools, while collaborating with design, product, and AI backend teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

ReactTypeScriptBuild SystemsCI/CDVideo EditorsCreative CanvasAnimation/Keyframe SystemsDesign ToolsNode‑Graph EditorsOpen‑Source Projects

Qualifications

Experience Owning and Leading Technical Initiatives

Full job description

About Us 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 our launch video
  • Award-winning AI films 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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