Front-End Developer CV Examples

The first section on a CV is pretty universal, your contact details. This starts with your full name and professional title. Your title should include your job title e.g. Front-End Developer but you can use this space to highlight areas of expertise e.g Front-End Developer | React Specialist | UX-Focused.

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Your phone number and email address give your employer a way to contact you - some employers have a preference for email vs. phone contact (and vice versa) so it is best to include both to cover all bases here. Your email address should sound professional - ideally firstname.secondname@email.com but you may need to add numbers if yours is already taken. Do not use an informal email address; create a new one if necessary. An email address that may have sounded funny when you set it up years ago can give employers the wrong impression. Include the country code with your phone number (for the UK, this is +44) so that potential employers can always contact you—many global employers will use international recruitment teams.

Including a link to your LinkedIn profile is common practice for all CV's, and for developers it is important to include a link to Github as well. Recruiters will often look for your profiles on these platforms whether you include links to them or not, so it is worthwhile spending time to ensure they are accurate and highlight your best work. These platforms allow recruiters to quickly see your work history, projects, recommendations and other examples of your work (e.g. open source projects).

Your professional summary (sometimes called a professional profile or executive summary) should provide a two to four sentence overview of your experience. In this section you should highlight your core languages and frameworks (e.g. TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Next.js), years of experience, areas of expertise (e.g. User Experience Optimisation, Mobile-First Design, Static Site & SSR Frameworks) and specific achievements.

Be specific about the value you bring to your target role. It is worth adjusting your summary to the role you're applying for. If a job description includes terms like, accessibility, WCAG, inclusive design you can highlight experience in those areas e.g. "skilled in creating WCAG-compliant interfaces".

Most front-end developer jobs will expect you to have a strong knowledge of HTML & CSS, and at least a proficiency in Javascript. Mention these in the skills section as well as other languages, frameworks and tools you have experience with. List the raw programming languages separately from frameworks (e.g. React, Vue.js, Angular, Tailwind, Bootstrap) and meta-frameworks (e.g. Next.js, Nuxt, Astro) to improve readability.

Read through skills listed in the job post, make sure to add all of the ones you have experience with, this not only lets recruiters know you have the skills they're looking for but can help your CV pass automated checks like ATS. Prioritise TypeScript and React over older libraries like jQuery unless specifically requested. Employers will often only spend a few seconds initially scanning your CV so grouping skills into categories can help with readability and prevent clutter.

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Showcase familiarity with the full ecosystem, including TypeScript, Git, Unit Testing, and CI/CD. Mention experience working with UI/UX designers and back-end developers in Agile environments as soft skills for front-end roles. Explicitly list testing tools like Jest, Cypress, or Playwright in your CV.

Being able to code is a given. How well you code is what employers want to figure out. They want to see your technical expertise: that you can not only implement a design but also understand how their users will interact with it. Understanding how responsive design will work across breakpoints, how large touch targets should be and how a user interface (UI) will respond to different input types shows that you can think beyond visuals alone.

Employers know that users will interact with their site using desktops, tablets, mobiles and screen readers. In order to get the job, you need to demonstrate that you understand how to offer all of these users a consistent, accessible, and high-quality experience. If you have experience with accessibility best practices, such as ARIA attributes, semantic HTML, colour contrast, focus management or screen reader testing, be sure to include them in the skills section. For more senior roles you can also mention usability testing, accessibility auditing and any experience with WCAG guidelines.

Your professional experience should be written in reverse chronological order, meaning your most recent job should appear at the top. For each company in your work history, include the company name, employment dates and your job title while working there. Use bullet points or a short paragraph to outline core responsibilities, your primary tech stack while working there, and most importantly any stand-out achievements. Be specific with your accomplishments, do not say, "I reduced page load time", say, "I reduced LCP by 25%" or "I cut API response time from 800 ms to 300 ms." Before interview make sure to practice speaking about these achievements as they are very likely to come up.

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Use strong action verbs (e.g. engineered, optimised, implemented, architected), and avoid vague phrases like "responsible for." Each entry should quickly communicate your value to a recruiter or hiring manager within a few seconds of scanning. For mid-level roles and up use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) method to focus on impact rather than listing duties/tasks.

Employers want to see that you can anticipate, or have experience with, edge cases: slow connections, small screens, limited bandwidth, reduced-motion preferences, or users navigating without a mouse. They want to understand the design and prototyping tools you've worked with, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite and how you've used them in projects. Stand-out details can include, optimising Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code-splitting, and any other metrics you've improved. These details show you can think beyond design and account for real user experiences, very important when applying for senior roles.

Project work will help you stand out, especially early in your career. They will serve as the primary evidence of competency when starting out. An interesting project will allow you to showcase your breadth of knowledge, show enthusiasm for your craft and allow you to showcase skills you haven't yet used at work that might be useful to your prospective employer.

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Open source is a great way to get started and demonstrates that you can contribute peer-reviewed code to high-level projects while collaborating with other developers. This collaboration experience, especially when it involves designers using Figma and back-end teams on API integration, helps your application stand out. The bottom line is that you want to share 3–5 past projects that most closely align with the job description.

You can also share links to solo projects that you've built to show that you can handle the full development cycle—taking an idea from zero to published. Add Github links to these repositories and ensure they have working demo links and a detailed README that shows how the application works, the tech stack used and screenshots of key areas.

It is up to you whether you choose to include references on your CV. You will be asked to provide them at some point during the recruitment process but you are not required to include them on your initial application. If you can secure strong references from heads of departments or a CTO then there is no harm in including them. Generally this is only done when starting out and you do not have enough experience to fill a full page of A4.

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If you have under 5 years of experience keep your CV to one page and unless you have changed jobs 10+ times there is generally no reason to go beyond two pages. Your prospective employer's website will tell you which document format to submit. Most modern applicant tracking systems will use PDFs but can accept other formats such as DOCX or plain text.

Your CV should be formatted in an ATS friendly way, which means using standard sub-headings and avoiding overly-complex layouts. Including a headshot is a matter of personal preference but outside this it is generally recommended to avoid using too many graphics or images.