Senior Full-stack Engineer

Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking, and they are seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer to build the core infrastructure powering AI-native filmmaking. The role involves designing scalable backend systems, architecting APIs, and ensuring high performance across complex systems.

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
• Ability to take ambiguous problems and turn them into clean, scalable systems
• Startup mindset: ownership, speed, and pragmatism
• 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