Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Embedding VC; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Equity 0.10%–1.00%

Job summary

Flick is building the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. We are seeking a founding front-end engineer to lead the core editor UI—canvas, timeline, and creative tooling—and shape the product with the founders.

You will own architecture, drive rapid prototyping, and collaborate with design, product, and AI backend teams to deliver fast, beautiful, and intuitive experiences for creative users.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading front-end initiatives on high-performance web apps.
• Experience owning technical initiatives on high-performance web applications.
• Strong expertise with React, TypeScript, build systems, CI/CD.
• Experience optimizing complex UX interactions in editors or multimedia tools.
• Ability to design scalable UI architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state.
• Startup mindset: thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, solve ambiguous problems at scale.

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

Skills

React

TypeScript

Build tooling

CI/CD

UI architecture

State management

Performance optimization

Editor UI design

Creative tooling

Tools

Video editors

Animation systems

Node-graph editors

Design tools

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