Senior Frontend Engineer
RemotePosted July 28, 2026
About the role
Flick is seeking a founding Frontend Engineer to lead the development of the core editor UI for our AI-native filmmaking platform. In this role you will own the architecture and implementation of the editor experience (canvas, timeline, node graph, playback) and shape the user interface in collaboration with founders.
Responsibilities
Qualifications: Nice-to-have:
- Lead the architecture and development of the 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 with design, product, and AI backend teams to deliver an end-to-end user experience
- Drive technical and product decisions as part of the founding engineering team
- 3+ years of experience
- Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high-performance web apps
- Strong expertise with modern frontend 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
- Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors
- Love films and art
- Open-source contributions
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