Front-End Jobs Titles

Below is a list and description of various front-end job titles. The common, or most used (i.e., generic), title for a front-end developer is, “front-end developer” or “front-end engineer”. Note that any job that contains the word “front-end”, “client-side”, “web UI”, “HTML”, “CSS”, or “JavaScript” typically infers that a person has some degree of HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript professional know how.

Front-End Developer

The generic job title that describes a developer who is skilled to some degree at HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript and implementing these technologies on the web platform.

Front-End Engineer (aka JavaScript Developer or Full-stack JavaScript Developer)

The job title given to a developer who comes from a computer science, engineering, background and is using these skills to work with front-end technologies. This role typically requires a computer science degree and years of software development experience. When the word “JavaScript Application” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer should be an advanced JavaScript developer possessing advanced programming, software development, and application development skills (i.e has years of experience building front-end applications).

CSS/HTML Developer

The front-end job title that describes a developer who is skilled at HTML and CSS, excluding JavaScript and Application know how.

Front-End Web Designer

When the word “Designer” is included in the job title, this will denote that the designer will posses front-end skills (i.e., HTML & CSS) but also professional design (Visual Design and Interaction Design) skills.

Web/Front-End User Interface (aka UI) Developer/Engineer

When the word “Interface” or “UI” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer should posses interaction design skills in addition to front-end developer skills or front-end engineering skills.

Mobile/Tablet Front-End Developer

When the word “Mobile” or “Tablet” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer has experience developing front-ends that run on mobile or tablet devices (either natively or on the web platform, i.e., in a browser).

Front-End SEO Expert

When the word “SEO” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer has extensive experience crafting front-end technologies towards an SEO strategy.

Front-End Accessibility Expert

When the word “Accessibility” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer has extensive experience crafting front-end technologies that support accessibility requirements and standards.

Front-End Dev. Ops

When the word “DevOps” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer has extensive experience with software development practices pertaining to collaboration, integration, deployment, automation, and measurement.

Front-End Testing/QA

When the word “Testing” or “QA” is included in the job title, this will denote that the developer has extensive experience testing and managing software that involves unit testing, functional testing, user testing, and A/B testing.

Note that if you come across the “Full Stack” or the generic “Web Developer” terms in job titles these words may be used by an employer to describe a role that is responsible for all aspects of web/app development, i.e., both front-end (potentially including design) and back-end.