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Frontend Developer Job Description (2026): Duties, Skills and Salary

A frontend developer builds the part of a web product people see and use: pages, components, forms and interactions in the browser. They turn designs into accessible, responsive interfaces in HTML, CSS and JavaScript or TypeScript, usually with a framework such as React, Vue or Angular, and connect them to backend APIs.

Good frontend work is measured by users, not by how closely it matches a mockup: pages load fast on slow phones, work with a keyboard and a screen reader, and behave the same across browsers. Frontend developers work daily with product designers and backend developers, and often look after the design system or component library.

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Frontend Developer

[Company] · [City and office days, or remote with the countries or time zones you hire in] · [Full-time]

About [Company]

[Two or three sentences on what your company does, who it serves and why this team matters now.]

About the role

[Company] is looking for a frontend developer to build the web interface of [product], used by [users]. You'll turn designs into fast, accessible components in [framework] and TypeScript, and help shape the design system the whole product is built from.

What you'll do

  • Build responsive, accessible interfaces in [React, Vue or Angular] and TypeScript from Figma designs.
  • Develop and document shared components in our design system [Storybook or similar].
  • Connect the interface to REST or GraphQL APIs, with proper loading, empty and error states.
  • Measure and improve Core Web Vitals and bundle size on key pages.
  • Write unit and end-to-end tests with [Jest or Vitest, and Playwright or Cypress].
  • Check your work against WCAG 2.2 AA: keyboard navigation, focus order, labels and contrast.
  • Flag early to designers what's hard to build, and suggest simpler alternatives.

What you'll bring

  • [X]+ years building production web interfaces with [framework] and TypeScript.
  • Strong HTML and CSS, including flexbox and grid layouts, without reaching for a UI kit for everything.
  • Understanding of state management, rendering and data fetching in a modern framework.
  • Working knowledge of web accessibility and how to test for it.
  • Comfort with browser developer tools for debugging and performance profiling.
  • A portfolio, repository or live product you can walk us through.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Next.js, server-side rendering or static generation.
  • Animation and interaction work in CSS or a library such as Framer Motion.
  • Internationalization, including right-to-left layouts.
  • Experience building a design system from scratch.

What we offer

  • [Pay range: e.g. $X–$Y base salary, plus bonus or equity if offered]
  • [Budget for a good screen and test devices, learning budget, design-team offsites]
  • [Health cover, retirement or pension plan, paid time off, parental leave]
  • [Work authorization: whether you can sponsor a visa or hire through an employer of record]

[Our process: an intro call, a short paid take-home component task or a live pairing session, a walkthrough of your work with a designer and an engineer, and a final team call.]

[Your equal opportunity statement, and how candidates can ask for adjustments during the process]

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What real frontend developer job ads ask for

The skills named most often in the 452 newest frontend developer job ads we analyzed (out of 1,227 live postings), as the share of ads that mention each. A skill most ads name is a fair must-have; one few ads name belongs under nice-to-have.

  1. 1React70%
  2. 2TypeScript65%
  3. 3JavaScript53%
  4. 4CSS49%
  5. 5HTML43%
  6. 6CI/CD33%
  7. 7Code review31%
  8. 8Git29%

Degrees mentioned most: Bachelor's degree (19%), Computer Science (17%).

From live job ads · computed November 2, 2026 · refreshed daily

Frontend Developer duties by seniority

What the job usually looks like at each level. Pitch the ad at one level and say which in the title.

Junior

  • Builds components and pages from finished designs, reviewed by a senior.
  • Fixes layout and cross-browser bugs, adding a test for each.
  • Learns the design system and the team's accessibility checks.

Mid-level

  • Owns features across several pages, from API contract to release.
  • Catches performance and accessibility problems before they ship.
  • Extends the component library and keeps it consistent.

Senior

  • Sets frontend architecture: rendering strategy, state, build tooling and testing.
  • Runs the design system with design, deciding what goes in and how it versions.
  • Mentors developers and tells product what's technically realistic.

Frontend Developer career path

  1. Junior Frontend Developer
  2. Frontend Developer
  3. Senior Frontend Developer
  4. Staff Frontend Engineer or Frontend Lead

Many frontend developers come from web design, bootcamps or computer science, and a strong portfolio often counts for more than the route. Later moves include frontend architecture, design systems, full stack development and engineering management, and for those drawn to the design side, design engineering or UX roles.

Advertised pay for frontend developer jobs

Median advertised base salary in Frontend Developer job ads in the United States: $197,000 (middle half: $164,100–$220,000), from 183 job ads with a published salary in the last 90 days.

This is advertised pay, not total compensation: bonuses, commission, equity and benefits aren't included, and many ads publish no pay at all.

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Frontend Developer job description FAQ

What does a frontend developer do?

Turns designs into working interfaces in the browser: building components and pages, connecting them to APIs, and making sure they're fast, accessible and usable on every screen size. They work closely with designers and backend developers.

Is a frontend developer the same as a web designer?

No. A web designer decides how a page looks and works, usually in a tool such as Figma; a frontend developer writes the code that makes it real. Some people do both, but developer job ads expect production code, tests and framework experience.

Should a frontend job description ask for React specifically?

Only if your codebase uses it. Developers move between React, Vue and Angular fairly easily, so asking for 'a modern framework, ideally React' widens the pool without lowering the bar.