# Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer at Flick

- Company: Flick (YC F25)
- What the company does: We Handle AI. You Direct Films. Backed by Y Combinator and GV.
- Company website: https://flick.art
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA, US / Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-12-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-staff-frontend-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/flick-senior-staff-frontend-engineer/

## About the role

As our founding front-end engineer, you’ll lead the development of the core experience of Flick — our canvas, timeline, and creative tooling. You will work directly with the founders, and have the opportunity to shape the future interface for AI visual storytelling.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering