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Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

  • Source: LinkedIn
  • Embedding VC
  • Remote
  • San Francisco
  • Full-Time
  • Senior

Job Description

About Flick Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Ray Wang (engineer who built Instagram Stories) and Zoey Zhang (award-winning filmmaker). Well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed.

The Role Founding front-end engineer. Lead the development of the core experience of Flick — the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. Work directly with founders and shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and development of 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 end-to-end user experience
  • Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience
  • 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
  • Passion for creating fast, intuitive, and beautiful creative interfaces
  • Startup mindset: thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, solve ambiguous problems at scale

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

  • Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar
  • Love films and art
  • Open-source contributions and personal coding projects outside regular work

Compensation

  • $100,000 – $200,000 / year + 0.10% – 1.00% equity
  • Visa sponsorship available

Skills

  • NodeJS
  • microsoft-graph
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • microsoft-typescript
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