Front-End Developer resume example
A front-end developer resume should show that you build interfaces users love and engineers trust: fast, accessible, well-tested and consistent. Tie your UI work to product metrics wherever you can.
This is a fictional, illustrative example -- not a real person or a promised result. Replace every detail with your own.
Full example resume
Sample content, for illustration -- not a real person.
Front-end developer with 5 years of experience building B2B dashboards in React and TypeScript. Led a design-system rollout adopted by 4 product teams and cut dashboard load time by 60%.
- •Rebuilt the reporting dashboard with code-splitting and virtualised tables, cutting load time 60% for accounts with 100K+ rows.
- •Led a design system of 45 React components now used by 4 product teams.
- •Built a new onboarding flow that raised activation from 41% to 55%.
- •Raised front-end test coverage from 30% to 75% with Testing Library and Playwright.
- •Built checkout UI components in React for 60,000 monthly shoppers.
- •Fixed 25 accessibility issues found in an audit, reaching WCAG 2.1 AA.
- •Migrated 80 components from JavaScript to TypeScript.
Summary: weak vs. improved
Front-end developer passionate about pixel-perfect UIs.
Front-end developer building B2B dashboards in React and TypeScript. Led a design system used by 4 teams and cut dashboard load time 60%.
Every front-end developer claims pixel-perfect work. Adoption and performance numbers prove impact beyond your own screen.
Skills to include
- ✓React (or Vue/Angular) and TypeScript
- ✓State management and data fetching
- ✓CSS, design systems and Tailwind
- ✓Accessibility (WCAG)
- ✓Testing (Jest, Testing Library, Playwright)
- ✓Web performance (Core Web Vitals)
Only list skills you actually have -- the AI review in the editor will flag a skill that doesn't appear anywhere else in your resume.
Bullet examples: weak vs. improved
Worked on dashboard performance.
Rebuilt the reporting dashboard with code-splitting and virtualised tables, cutting load time 60% for accounts with 100K+ rows.
Techniques plus a measurable result show real front-end engineering depth.
Built reusable components.
Led a design system of 45 React components now used by 4 product teams.
Adoption across teams shows your work scaled beyond one feature.
Developed the onboarding flow.
Built a new onboarding flow that raised activation from 41% to 55%.
A product metric connects your UI work to business value.
How this changes by experience level
Show 2–3 polished projects with links and one front-end skill in depth (testing, accessibility or performance).
Built a weather app in React with offline support and a 98 Lighthouse performance score.
Show shipped features with product metrics and quality work, like the full example above.
See the full example above.
Show architecture, cross-team systems and mentoring.
Led the move to a micro-front-end architecture, letting 6 teams deploy independently and cutting release conflicts by 80%.
Section order
- Contact and links (GitHub, portfolio)
- Short summary
- Skills
- Experience
- Projects
- Education
Common mistakes to avoid
- !Listing frameworks without showing what you built
- !No links to live work or code
- !Ignoring performance and accessibility, which interviewers ask about
Recommended template: Technical
Skills matrix and project highlights for engineers.