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Founding Frontend Engineer

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United States , Sunnyvale

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100000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. 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.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 07, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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