Embedding Vc

Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

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Role family: Engineering
Seniority: Lead / management
Stated salary: $100,000 – $200,000 per year
Country: US
Work mode: Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly: 10 Sept 2026

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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 founders and shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and development of 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 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, 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

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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