Emma Jones

Emma Jones

Frontend Developer in Somerset, UK

About

Frontend developer with over eight years of experience, currently leading the frontend team at Happl, an employee benefits and engagement platform for global teams.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Remote

Joined the founding team as the second developer and the first frontend developer. Built the Next.js app from scratch, initially as the sole contributor, and later led the hiring and mentoring of the frontend team.

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, React Testing Library, Stripe, Shopify, Supabase, Vercel

2019 — 2020
Remote

Part of a three-person team developing the React Native app, scaling it to over 2 million users. Integrated React Native for Web, achieving feature parity across iOS, Android, and web.

React Native, React Native for Web, Redux, Styled components, Storybook, Enzyme

2016 — 2018
London

Freelanced before joining full-time as the first in-house developer. Responsible for the marketing website, led the migration of the web app from Java/JSF to React, and collaborated closely with the product team to establish a design system.

React, Styled components, Storybook

2016 — 2017
London

Worked as part of the mobile delivery team, helping build the corporations internal web apps.

Angular

Education

2012 — 2014
A-Levels at Surbiton High School

Biology (A*), Computing (A*), Maths (A)

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