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

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.

Our tech stack include Typescript, React, WebGL for front-end, Python based Agent framework written by our own. We also train our own AI image/video models.