Senior​/Frontend Engineer

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

• 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.

• Experience owning and leading technical initiatives on high‑performance web applications.
• Strong expertise with modern front‑end tooling (React, Type Script, 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.

• 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.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Technology, Information and Internet