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Amanda Chen

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Mobile & Web

Flex · New York, NY · Sep 2024 – Present

  • Founding engineer of the Design Systems & AI Enablement team; architected and shipped Ultraviolet, a scalable design system adopted across Web, iOS, and Android, setting the technical roadmap as the primary point of contact for design, engineering, and product.
  • Built the component library and design-token system, spanning composable, slot-based primitives, complex interactive controls, and icon and illustration systems, with accessible defaults throughout, cutting feature build and handoff time across the consumer app.
  • Built the team's AI and agent tooling, from Figma-to-code pipelines and automated design-system enforcement to agents that migrate consumer teams onto the system and give designers and PMs self-serve access to components, driving adoption while freeing engineers for product work.
  • Improved frontend performance by cutting bundle size, optimizing illustration assets, and lazy-loading SVGs across the consumer app.
  • Helped rebuild the consumer app's payments experience across rent autopay, virtual-card, and bank/DDA payment flows, including payment scheduling and the home screen renters land on.
  • Led frontend onboarding for Flex Bills, a bill-splitting product built with partner Public Grid that opened a new payment vertical beyond rent.

Senior Software Engineer

Squarespace · New York, NY · Aug 2019 – Sep 2024

  • Owned the Projects and Invoices dashboards as complex, cross-team rollouts with the commerce and platform teams, enabling sellers to create interactive client previews.
  • Shipped the Proposals editor in React and Redux Toolkit, letting sellers produce branded, interactive client-facing documents.
  • Shipped storefront features that gave merchants more control and shoppers more confidence, from customizable product detail page layouts to native product reviews.
  • Integrated Printful's print-on-demand service into the commerce platform, letting merchants design and sell custom products with no inventory.
  • Led a major technical-debt reduction, migrating the legacy Commerce product editor from YUI to React and establishing a Jest and Cypress testing suite, improving reliability and shipping velocity.