Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

FlickWe Handle AI. You Direct Films.Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer$100K - $200K•0.10% - 1.00%•Sunnyvale, CA, US / RemoteJob typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, FrontendExperience3+ yearsVisaWill sponsorSkillsReact, TypeScriptConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Ray WangFounderRay WangFounderAbout the roleAbout 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. About FlickFlick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist. We are well funded by leading investors, including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, and other top-tier VCs. Checkout our launch video Award-winning AI film created using Flick People talk about us on social FlickFounded:2025Batch:F25Team Size:2Status:ActiveLocation:San Francisco FoundersRay Wang FounderRay Wang FounderZoey Zhang FounderZoey Zhang FounderSimilar JobsCoulomb AISenior Frontend DeveloperClinikallySDE 2 - FrontendCredal.aiFounding Frontend/UX Software EngineerDalusSenior Software/Frontend Engineer @ Germany OfficeFlickSenior/Staff Frontend EngineerMetriportDesign EngineerStacksyncSenior Frontend Engineer, AI Product UXJarminDesign EngineerDedalus LabsDesign EngineerConfident AIFounding Product Engineer (Frontend)VectorShiftFrontend Engineer (India)TrussDesign-Focused React Native EngineerSplash Inc.Frontend Engineer (UI/UX)UplaneForward Deployed Engineer - BerlinchrtFrontend Engineer