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About the role
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
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Lead the architecture and development of our editor UI from the ground up (canvas, timeline, node graph, playback).
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Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows to validate ideas and user experience.
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Establish best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and maintainability.
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Collaborate closely with design, product, and AI backend teams to shape the end-to-end user experience.
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Drive key technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team.
Requirements
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Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high-performance web applications.
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Strong expertise with modern front-end tooling (React, TypeScript, build systems, CI/CD).
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Deep experience optimizing complex UX interactions , especially in editors, canvases, visual builders, or multimedia tools.
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Ability to design scalable UI architectures and manage large, dynamic client-side state.
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A passion for creating fast, intuitive, and beautiful creative interfaces.
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Startup mindset: you thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, and solve ambiguous problems at scale.
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Nice-to-have
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Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar.
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Love films and art.
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Have contributed in open-source projects, and coding for fun outside of regular work.
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