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Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Role overview

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

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

Key facts

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Leadership

About the company

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Embedding VC

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Embedding VC is an early-stage venture fund backing Generative AI startups. All our investors are current and former builders and operators. We believe in the mission to develop AGI, and we are at the onset of a new computing super cycle, fundamentally driven by AI innovations.

Company details

IndustryPrivate Equity & Venture Capital
Company size2 - 10

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Job description

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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