Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Role Overview

Founding Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the core front-end experience of Flick, including the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. You’ll work directly with the founders to shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of the editor UI from scratch (canvas, timeline, node graph, playback)
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows to validate UX and user experience
• Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and AI backend teams on end-to-end user experience
• Drive major technical and product decisions as a founding engineering team member

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience owning and leading technical initiatives for high-performance web applications
• Strong expertise with modern front-end tooling: React, TypeScript, build systems, CI/CD
• Deep experience optimizing complex UX interactions for editor/canvas/visual builder or multimedia-style tools
• Ability to design scalable UI architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state
• Startup mindset: ownership and comfort solving ambiguous problems at speed

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with video editors, creative canvases, animation/keyframe systems, node-graph editors, or similar
• Open-source contributions or personal coding projects
• Personal interest in films and art

Compensation

• $100,000 – $200,000 / year + 0.10% – 1.00% equity
• Visa sponsorship available