- Job title
- Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
- Job location
- Sunnyvale, CA, US / Remote
- Job description
- ## 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[ launch video](https://youtu.be/K1GgsSnwfow?si=taFwiulaMSu3kPNV)
* Award-winning [AI films](https://flick.art/showroom) 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.
