Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer
Embedding Vc · San Francisco Bay Area
About this role
## About Flick Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking—think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Ray Wang (engineer who built Instagram Stories) and Zoey Zhang (award-winning filmmaker). Well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed. ## The Role Founding front-end engineer. Lead the development of the core experience of Flick—**the canvas, timeline, and creative tooling**. Work directly with the founders and help shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling. ## Responsibilities - Lead 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 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 ## Required Qualifications - 3+ years of experience - 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 (editors, canvases, visual builders, 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 ## Nice-to-Have Qualifications - Experience with video editors, creative canvas, animation/keyframe systems, design tools, node-graph editors, or similar - Love films and art - Open-source contributions and personal coding projects outside regular work ## Compensation - **$100,000 – $200,000 / year** + **0.10% – 1.00% equity** - Visa sponsorship available
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