Resume Example
Software Engineer Resume Example & Template
Software engineer resumes get filtered by ATS keyword matching before a human ever sees them, and then get skimmed in under ten seconds by the human who does. That means two things have to be true at once: the right technologies need to show up in your bullet points (not just a skills list at the bottom), and each bullet needs to state an outcome, not just a task. “Worked on backend services” tells a recruiter nothing. “Rebuilt the checkout service in Go, cutting p95 latency from 800ms to 210ms” tells them exactly what you're capable of.
Sample resume summary
“Backend-leaning software engineer with 4 years building and scaling distributed systems in Go and Python. Shipped services handling 10M+ daily requests, led a migration off a monolith to microservices, and mentored two junior engineers.”
Resume bullet point examples
- Redesigned the payments microservice architecture, reducing checkout errors by 34% and cutting average response time from 800ms to 210ms
- Led migration of a legacy Django monolith to a service-oriented architecture, coordinating with 3 teams over 6 months with zero downtime
- Built a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and Terraform that cut average deploy time from 40 minutes to 6 minutes
- Wrote and maintained integration tests that raised backend test coverage from 52% to 89%, catching regressions before they reached production
- Mentored 2 junior engineers through code review and pairing, both promoted to mid-level within a year
- Optimized a Postgres query layer that was the top source of slow-query alerts, reducing database load by 40%
Skills to include
PythonGoJavaScript/TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesAWSCI/CDSystem designREST & GraphQL APIs
Tips for this resume
- Match the stack in the job description, not just your strongest stack. If a posting says Go and you've used it on one project, that project's bullets should lead.
- Quantify with numbers you actually have access to — latency, error rate, test coverage, deploy frequency. If you don’t have exact figures, a defensible estimate ("roughly 30%") beats a vague adjective.
- Put a GitHub link and, if relevant, a live project link in your header. For engineers, this is often the highest-signal line on the page.
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