Flick

Figma + Cursor, for AI Filmmaking

Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

$100K - $250K0.10% - 1.00%Sunnyvale, CA, US / Remote
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Frontend
Experience
3+ years
Visa
Will sponsor
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Ray Wang
Ray Wang
Founder

About the role

The Role

As our founding front-end engineer, you’ll build and ship the core editing experience of Flick — our canvas, timeline, and creative tooling.

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 Flick

Flick is building the future interface for AI native filmmaking. It lets people create films completely using AI on a canvas with a AI agent working with you. Think of Figma + Cursor, but for AI filmmaking.

Founded by a founding engineer who built the first version of Instagram Stories and a professional filmmaker whose AI films won 20+ film festival awards.

Funded by YC, and other top VCs (total of $6M)

Our recent launch got overwhelming positive feedback and we are growing very fast on revenue: Watch our launch video Testimony Launch Post

Flick
Founded:2025
Batch:F25
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Founders
Ray Wang
Ray Wang
Founder
Zoey Zhang
Zoey Zhang
Founder