via Ycombinator
$100000 - 250000 a year
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.
This job posting was last updated on 12/7/2025