Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

Embedding VC

$100K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in front-end development
  • Proven track record leading technical projects for high-performance web applications
  • Strong knowledge of React, TypeScript, and CI/CD build systems
  • Expertise in optimizing user interactions for complex UX applications
  • Skilled in designing scalable UI architectures for dynamic applications
  • Genuine passion for creating engaging and high-quality creative interfaces
  • Adaptable and proactive in fast-paced startup environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of core UI components for a creative platform
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on workflows for user feedback
  • Establish coding best practices for quality and performance
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience
  • Influence technical and product direction within a founding team

Benefits

  • Equity compensation ranging from 0.10% to 1.00%
  • Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates
Full Job Description
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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