Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

About Flick

We Handle AI. You Direct Films.

Tech

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.

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[ launch video](https://youtu.be/K1GgsSnwfow?si=taFwiulaMSu3kPNV)* Award-winning [AI films](https://flick.art/showroom) created using Flick## The RoleAs 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.

Skills

• React
• TypeScript