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Front-end developer resume example

A mid-level front-end developer’s resume with four years of experience. Front-end hiring teams look for evidence that you make interfaces faster, more accessible and easier to build on, so the bullets lead with those results.

Front-end developer resume example, page 1 of 1Sofia LindqvistFront-End DeveloperSUMMARYFront-end developer with four years building fast, accessible Reactapplications for e-commerce and media. I care about the details usersfeel: load time, keyboard access and interfaces that do what they looklike they do.EXPERIENCEFront-End DeveloperFeb 2023 – PresentSummit Outfitters · Denver, CO•Rebuilt product pages in Next.js and TypeScript, improving LargestContentful Paint from 4.1 s to 1.6 s and lifting mobile conversion by 11%.•Built a component library of 45 accessible components with Storybook,now used by 3 teams across the store and the app.•Fixed 120 accessibility issues to reach WCAG 2.2 AA, after whichaccessibility complaints dropped to zero.•Cut the JavaScript sent to shoppers by 38% with code splitting and byremoving two unused libraries.Web DeveloperJun 2021 – Jan 2023Mile High Media · Denver, CO•Built interactive story pages and election results maps in React and D3that reached 2 million readers.•Created a page template system that let editors publish specialfeatures without a developer, saving about 10 hours a week.EDUCATIONB.A. in Interactive Media2017 – 2021University of Colorado Denver · Denver, COPROJECTSTrailhead2024Svelte, Mapbox · github.com/example-sofial/trailhead•Open-source trail map with offline support; 900 GitHub stars.CONTACTsofia.lindqvist@example.com(303) 555-0145Denver, COgithub.com/example-sofialsofialindqvist.example.comSKILLSTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.jsHTMLCSS and SassAccessibility (WCAG 2.2)Web performanceStorybookJest and Testing LibraryPlaywrightFigmaD3.jsGraphQL
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What recruiters look for

  • Modern framework experience: React, Vue, Angular or Svelte with TypeScript, in real products.
  • Performance results: Core Web Vitals, bundle size, load time, and the business effect of improving them.
  • Accessibility: WCAG knowledge, keyboard and screen reader testing, audits you fixed.
  • Design collaboration: component libraries, design systems and working with Figma.
  • A portfolio or live work: links to things a reviewer can open and try.

Writing the summary

Say your years, your framework and what you care about in interfaces. Front-end summaries that mention performance and accessibility stand out because few people back them up.

The summary in this example

Front-end developer with four years building fast, accessible React applications for e-commerce and media. I care about the details users feel: load time, keyboard access and interfaces that do what they look like they do.

Designer moving into front-end development

Product designer turned front-end developer, with three years designing in Figma and two years building those designs in React and TypeScript. I close the gap between design and code, and my components ship looking the way they were drawn.

Senior front-end engineer

Senior front-end engineer with nine years building large React applications. I lead design system and performance work, mentor developers on accessibility, and make big codebases feel small again.

Bullet points that work

Strong lines for this role, beyond the ones in the example. Borrow the shape and put in your own numbers.

  • Migrated a 150,000-line app from JavaScript to TypeScript over 9 months, cutting production errors by 40%.
  • Improved Interaction to Next Paint from 380 ms to 120 ms on the search page by moving filtering to a web worker.
  • Led the move from Create React App to Vite, cutting local build time from 90 to 8 seconds.
  • Built a checkout flow that works with keyboard and screen readers, tested with 6 assistive technology users.
  • Added visual regression tests for 200 components, catching 30 unintended style changes before release in the first quarter.
  • Reduced image weight by 60% with responsive images and AVIF, saving 4 TB of bandwidth a month.
  • Built a real-time dashboard with WebSockets that updates 5,000 data points a second without dropping frames.
  • Wrote the front-end coding guidelines and review checklist used by 18 developers.

Skills to list

Hard skills

  • TypeScript and modern JavaScript
  • React (or Vue, Angular, Svelte)
  • HTML and CSS, including layout and responsive design
  • Accessibility (WCAG, ARIA, screen reader testing)
  • Web performance and Core Web Vitals
  • Testing (Jest, Testing Library, Playwright)
  • Build tools (Vite, webpack)
  • Design systems and Storybook
  • APIs (REST, GraphQL)

Soft skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Working closely with designers
  • Explaining technical limits kindly
  • User empathy

Certifications and licenses worth listing

  • IAAP Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS): a strong differentiator for accessibility-focused roles.
  • No certification is expected for most front-end roles; a portfolio and live work matter more.

Length and format

One page. Put a portfolio or GitHub link in the header and one strong project if it shows something your job does not. A two-column layout keeps a long skills list tidy.

Common mistakes

  • Listing HTML, CSS and JavaScript as if they were the headline skills. They are expected; show what you did with them.
  • Screenshots or a heavily designed resume that an applicant tracking system cannot read.
  • Portfolio links that are broken or lead to unfinished work.
  • No metrics. Performance work is easy to measure: use the numbers.

Questions and answers

Should a front-end developer resume be creative?

Clean beats clever. Show design sense through spacing and typography, and put creativity in the portfolio. The resume must still read well for an applicant tracking system.

Do I need a portfolio as a front-end developer?

It helps a lot, especially early on. One to three live projects or case studies with links are enough.

Should I list design tools like Figma?

Yes, if you work from Figma files or contribute to a design system. It tells the team you will collaborate smoothly with designers.

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