Elena Voss
Senior Frontend Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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About
Elena is a senior frontend engineer with 8 years of experience building performant, accessible web applications at scale. She is passionate about design systems, component architecture, and creating interfaces that work seamlessly for every user.
Most recently at Stripe, she led the rebuild of the merchant dashboard's component library, improving developer velocity by 40% and achieving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across all customer-facing surfaces. She thrives at the intersection of engineering and design, and has a track record of shipping products that balance technical rigor with exceptional user experience.
Outside of work, Elena contributes to open-source accessibility tooling and mentors early-career engineers through Women Who Code SF. She is actively exploring senior or staff-level frontend roles at mission-driven companies.
Experience
- Led the migration of the merchant dashboard to a shared design system built on React and TypeScript, serving 3M+ users.
- Architected a component library with Storybook-driven documentation and automated visual regression testing.
- Championed accessibility improvements that brought all public-facing pages to WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
- Built interactive prototyping features using Canvas APIs and a custom rendering pipeline in TypeScript.
- Collaborated with the design systems team to create reusable UI primitives used across 12 product surfaces.
- Reduced initial page load time by 35% through code splitting and lazy-loading optimizations with Next.js.
- Developed shared React components for the file management interface, used by 700M+ registered users.
- Implemented end-to-end testing with Testing Library, increasing test coverage from 42% to 78% on key user flows.
- Partnered with product and design to ship a redesigned onboarding experience that improved activation by 18%.
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Resume summary
- Strong frontend experience with React and TypeScript at production scale.
- Led architecture migration and performance optimization projects with measurable impact.
- Design system and component library experience across multiple product teams.
Cover letter
I am excited to apply for this role. My background in building performant, accessible user interfaces aligns closely with the problems your team is solving. I have led frontend architecture projects that improved performance scores significantly and contributed to measurable user retention lifts. I look forward to bringing my experience to your team.
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Recruiter notes
Strong background. Design system experience is a plus. Move to phone screen this week.