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Frontend developers build the part of your product people see and use: components, state, data fetching, accessibility and performance in the browser. Every frontend developer on InstaTalent took a 25-minute spoken interview pitched at their level, and a person on our team reviewed it before the profile went live.

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  • 25-minute spoken interview
  • Pre-vetted: AI-interviewed, human-reviewed
  • Salary and availability up front
  • Pay only when a candidate says yes

When to hire a frontend developer

  • Designs are waiting on someone to build them, or your backend team keeps getting pulled into UI work.
  • Your app feels slow, breaks on mobile or fails accessibility checks.
  • You are moving to a modern framework or a design system and need someone who has done it before.

Skills you’ll find

ReactNext.jsVueAngularTypeScriptJavaScriptCSS and TailwindAccessibilityTestingWeb performance

What every profile shows

  • Interview result by skill
  • Level and experience
  • Skills and headline
  • Estimated English level (CEFR)
  • Salary range (USD / month)
  • Availability and notice
  • Time zone and work arrangement

Names show as first name and initial. Contact details, CV and the interview recording are shared once the candidate accepts your introduction.

{The interview}

How we interview frontend developers

A 25-minute spoken interview with our AI interviewer, pitched at the level the candidate chose. Questions are drawn at random for each interview and followed up with questions about the candidate’s own work, so answers can’t be rehearsed. Each skill is scored against written anchors for that level, and a person on our team reviews the interview before the profile goes live.

  • 40%

    Experience and behaviour

  • 40%

    Spoken technical questions

  • 20%

    Spoken English (CEFR estimate)

What we assess, by level

The same four skills at every level, with the bar set for that level. These are the standards our interviewer scores against and what a strong answer looks like.

Junior frontend developer

About 0–2 years, including first jobs, internships, bootcamps and self-taught

Frontend engineering
Builds maintainable UIs with a modern framework: component design, state, data fetching, structure.
Strong: Has built at least one complete small project end to end (from idea to something working and shared); explains clearly how it is structured and why they made their main choices.
JavaScript and TypeScript depth
Understands the language and the browser well enough to debug and reason, not just use libraries.
Strong: Explains async code, scope and errors clearly using their own examples; debugs methodically with dev tools and can say why a fix worked.
Quality and performance
Ships work that is tested, accessible, fast and measured.
Strong: Checks their work deliberately before sharing it: responsive layout, basic accessibility, simple tests or a checklist; can describe a problem they found and fixed.
Ownership and collaboration
Takes responsibility end to end and works well with design, product and other engineers, including remotely.
Strong: Takes clear ownership of their projects, asks good questions early, learns actively from feedback and explains their work clearly to others.

Mid-level frontend developer

About 2–5 years of professional work

Frontend engineering
Builds maintainable UIs with a modern framework: component design, state, data fetching, structure.
Strong: Owns significant features end to end; deliberate state and data strategy; structures code so others can change it; explains trade-offs unprompted.
JavaScript and TypeScript depth
Understands the language and the browser well enough to debug and reason, not just use libraries.
Strong: Reasons precisely about async behaviour, types and browser runtime; diagnoses tricky production bugs and explains the root cause clearly.
Quality and performance
Ships work that is tested, accessible, fast and measured.
Strong: Builds quality in: writes useful tests, measures performance before and after changes, and considers accessibility by default.
Ownership and collaboration
Takes responsibility end to end and works well with design, product and other engineers, including remotely.
Strong: Drives outcomes beyond their task, resolves disagreements with evidence, gives helpful reviews and works smoothly with remote teammates.

Senior frontend developer

5+ years, including leading work or mentoring others

Frontend engineering
Builds maintainable UIs with a modern framework: component design, state, data fetching, structure.
Strong: Shapes architecture across a product or several teams; makes and revisits decisions with clear trade-offs and outcomes; design system and platform thinking.
JavaScript and TypeScript depth
Understands the language and the browser well enough to debug and reason, not just use libraries.
Strong: Uses deep runtime and type-system understanding to prevent whole classes of bugs; sets patterns others follow and explains them clearly.
Quality and performance
Ships work that is tested, accessible, fast and measured.
Strong: Makes quality systematic: budgets, monitoring, test strategy and accessibility standards that the team keeps up without them.
Ownership and collaboration
Takes responsibility end to end and works well with design, product and other engineers, including remotely.
Strong: Raises the whole team's quality; influences decisions without authority; resolves disagreements with evidence; works smoothly across time zones.

How hiring works

  1. 01

    Browse interviewed talent

    Filter by role, level, interview result, English level, budget, availability and time zone.

  2. 02

    Read the evidence

    See how each candidate did in the interview, their strengths and what to explore next.

  3. 03

    Ask for an introduction

    Share the role and salary range. Candidates answer within 72 hours; a decline costs you nothing.

  4. 04

    Talk directly

    Once they accept: name, contact details, CV and the full interview recording and transcript.

Questions, answered

Candidates work in React and Next.js, Vue, Angular and plain TypeScript. Each profile lists the candidate’s skills, and the interview asks about real projects they built, so you can see how deep that experience goes.

The interview asks the candidate to walk through work they built and a hard bug they fixed, then follows up on their decisions: state and data strategy, how they debugged, how they test and measure performance. Answers are scored against written anchors for their level, and a person reviews the interview.

Yes. Candidates choose their level (junior, mid-level or senior) and are interviewed and judged against that level, so a junior profile tells you how they compare with other juniors, not with seniors.

Each candidate takes a 25-minute spoken interview with our AI interviewer, pitched at their role and level. Questions are drawn at random and followed up with questions about their own work, so answers can’t be rehearsed. A person on our team then reviews every interview before the profile goes live. You see bands and evidence, never a ranking by an AI score alone.

The Free plan includes one introduction a month; paid plans include more. An introduction only counts when the candidate accepts it, and there are no placement fees when you hire.

Yes. Every profile shows the candidate’s time zone and how they want to work (remote, hybrid, on-site or open to relocating), and you can filter by both.

You do. The AI gathers evidence and our team checks quality, but every hiring decision is made by people at your company.

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