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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 that reached 80% adoption within three months across Web, iOS, and Android, setting the technical roadmap as the primary point of contact for design, engineering, and product.
  • Created a component library with semantic design tokens, accessible defaults, and shared UI foundations that cut feature build and handoff time across the consumer app.
  • Shipped production AI tooling, including Figma-to-code and code-to-Figma pipelines and automated design-system enforcement, catching 90% of design-system violations pre-merge.
  • Developed agent-driven migration and enablement tooling that moves consumer teams onto the design system automatically, triages the adoption backlog in Linear, and gives designers and PMs self-serve access to components and AI-assisted workflows, driving adoption while freeing engineers to focus on product work.
  • Improved frontend performance by cutting bundle size, optimizing illustration assets, and lazy-loading SVGs across the consumer app.
  • Shipped core product across the consumer app, from helping rebuild the in-app experience (home screen through the virtual-card and bank/DDA payment flows) to leading frontend onboarding for Flex Bills, a bill-splitting feature built with partner Public Grid that opened a new payment vertical.

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.