Jess Forknall-Lane

Software Engineer at Finova || Computer Science Graduate from Lancaster University

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

About

Software Engineer at Finova. Lancaster University Computer Science graduate. Interested in Software Development, Web/App Development and HCI. St John Ambulance Emergency At Work First Aid Trained Womens + captain for Lancaster University Barbell Society 21/22

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Finova
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    Full‑stack engineer on a fully greenfield project, contributing to early foundation‑level decisions and end‑to‑end delivery. Working across TypeScript, Mantine, design tokens, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and robust testing to build a scalable, modern product from scratch.

  • Darktrace (Full-time · 3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Specalist UI Software Engineer
      Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 · 7 mos

      Currently owning and driving the UI strategy across multiple products and projects within our R&D team. I lead front-end architecture, collaborate closely with design and backend teams, and maintain scalable, accessible codebases. I also serve as a maintainer on several cross-functional initiatives, ensuring consistency and performance across platforms. Working with: • React • Typescript • JavaScript • HTML • CSS • Cypress On top of this I also support incoming women developers who join our R&D team to support our Women’s ERG.

    • UI Software Engineer
      Sep 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Developing and maintaining all product UI across Darktrace. Working with: - React - Typescript - JavaScript - HTML - CSS - Cypress Supporting all new women developers who join our R&D team to support our Women’s ERG. Organising and running monthly agenda meetings, showcases and socials for over 20 people.

    • Software Engineer - Internal Systems
      Sep 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      JavaScript Node.js Jquery MySQL HTML/ CSS PHP (Laravel) Vue (Vuetify 2) Working on projects for new features Working on bug fixes Working both front-end of our internal system and the back-end databases Organisation and running of team social dealing with booking and handling all finance and management approval process Currently learning React in personal time

  • UX Engineer intern at CrowdStrike
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 · 4 mos

    Work with all disciplines within the Intel Product Group (Project Management Agile Methodology Writing User Stories Gherkin/Cucumber End-to-end Testing Selenium/Cypress Creating Page Models for Testing Presenting Project to over 50 developers

  • Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University (Part-time · 2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Duty Manager
      Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Bar and Box office staff
      Oct 2019 - Jan 2020 · 4 mos

  • Summer Internship at Lancaster University
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2021 · 3 mos