Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
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- Experience
- 3+ years required
- Where you can live
- US only
- Skills and tools
- figma, typescript, react, ci/cd
- Job type
- Full-time
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Job details
- Where you can work
- United States
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Advertised pay
- $100K–200K/yr
- Experience
- 3+ years required
- Employer publication date
- 28 July 2026
- First recorded by Psst
- 12 October 2026
- Last checked at the source
- 10 November 2026
About the job
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
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