Flick · Sunnyvale, CA, US · Posted 1mo ago
$100k - $200k
We Handle AI. You Direct Films.
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.