Senior Full-stack Engineer

The Role

As a founding full stack engineer at Flick, you’ll build the core infrastructure powering AI-native filmmaking — from media generation interface to scalable backend systems. You will work directly with the founders, and have the opportunity to shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

• Design and build scalable backend systems for media generation, storage, and delivery.
• Architect APIs and services that power real-time, stateful creative workflows.
• Own end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Ensure high performance and reliability across complex, async-heavy systems.
• Build and maintain integrations with AI model providers and compute platforms.
• Establish strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and code quality.
• Work closely with product and frontend teams to ship cohesive experiences.

• Strong experience in system design and backend architecture at scale.
• Proficiency across the stack (e.g. Type Script/Node, Python, modern web frameworks).
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade APIs and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of performance, concurrency, and reliability.
• High standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clean, scalable systems.
• Startup mindset: ownership, speed, and pragmatism.

• Love films and art.
• Have been a filmmaker, animator, video editor, game developer before
• Have experience in AI video generation.
• Have contributed in open-source projects, and coding for fun outside of regular work.