With a background spanning product design and platform engineering, she has helped organizations like Goldman Sachs, Vice, PBS, and The Obama Foundation ship thoughtful, accessible digital products.
As a Senior, and later Principal Software Engineer at Care.com, Jae works on the front end Platform Team, maintaining and extending shared TypeScript-first React and Node libraries that power feature development across the organization. Her work emphasizes developer experience: authoring documentation, improving type hinting, running internal workshops, and leading engineering guilds to drive adoption and consistency. She has led major initiatives including a company-wide rebranding effort and the introduction of semantic theming conventions, establishing consistent design-token-driven patterns used across Care.com's product surfaces.
Jae spent nearly a decade at Postlight, a creative technology agency, growing from Product Designer into a Senior Engineer. Throughout both roles she operated as a bridge between design and engineering — translating design intent into precise, intentional front end implementation. As an engineer, she developed and maintained client projects with a React-focused stack, adopting TypeScript as the team matured. She brought accessibility into the development process and communicated directly with client stakeholders to align technical decisions with product goals. Her design background gave her a strong foundation in rapid prototyping and pixel-perfect execution with an understanding of design intent. Clients included Time Inc, Goldman Sachs, Vice, Mailchimp, The Obama Foundation, and PBS.
At SFX Entertainment, Jae worked as a designer on Beatport Live, a video livestreaming platform for electronic music built on Backbone.js. Her focus was on designing the web product, with particular depth in the video player experience — including its design, front end implementation using JW Player, and the instrumentation of ad tech to support the platform's monetization. Working on a small, close-knit team, she iterated rapidly on the product as it evolved.
While at Flightpath, Jae created front end interfaces for clients such as Minwax and Optimum. She introduced version control as a means of organizing and collaborating on projects in the company.
While serving as a freelace UI designer, Jae worked to create the interface for Sporting News for iPad, a digital magazine app.
Jae designed & developed splash page in promotion for an upcoming young adult book series.
Jae created wireframes, UI, visual assets, and mockups, as well as developed and deployed products, as well as engaged in rapid prototyping in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.