Senior Full-stack Engineer

About the role

Flick is defining the future interface for professional AI-native filmmaking. Founded by an engineer who helped build Instagram Stories and an award-winning filmmaker, Flick brings technology and artistry together. We are well funded by leading investors, including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, and other top-tier VCs. Check out our launch video.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems for media generation, storage, and delivery.
• Architect APIs and services that power real-time, stateful creative workflows.
• Own end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Ensure high performance and reliability across complex, async-heavy systems.
• Build and maintain integrations with AI model providers and compute platforms.
• Establish strong engineering practices: testing, observability, CI/CD, and code quality.
• Work closely with product and frontend teams to ship cohesive experiences.

Requirements

• Strong experience in system design and backend architecture at scale.
• Proficiency across the stack (e.g. TypeScript/Node, Python, modern web frameworks).
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade APIs and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of performance, concurrency, and reliability.
• High standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Startup mindset: ownership, speed, and pragmatism.

Nice-to-have

• Love films and art.
• Have been a filmmaker, animator, video editor, game developer before.
• Have experience in AI video generation.
• Have contributed in open-source projects, and coding for fun outside of regular work.