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Software Engineer Resume Example

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Software engineering resumes get filtered for the wrong reason more often than the wrong skills. Use this example as a parsing-safe baseline: ATS-friendly layout, real bullet phrasing, and the hard-skill keywords recruiters actually grep for.

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Sample software engineer resume

The same resume in the Modern, Executive and Elegant templates. Switch between them to see how the layout changes, then copy the structure into your own.

Minimal and left aligned, with thin rules and a near black accent.

Alex Morgan

Software Engineer, Full-stack and Distributed Systems

alex.morgan@example.com
(555) 555-0100
Austin, TX
linkedin.com/in/alex-morgan-example

Summary

Software engineer with 5+ years shipping production services in TypeScript and Go. Comfortable across the stack: built customer-facing React apps, designed event-driven backends, and owned the CI/CD that ships them. Strong on observability and on-call discipline, services I've owned average under 5 minutes mean time to detection.

Skills

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Go
React / Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL, Redis
AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3)
Docker, Kubernetes
REST / gRPC / GraphQL
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
Observability (Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry)

Experience

Software Engineer

Northwind Labs, 2022 to Present

Reduced p95 checkout latency by 38% by replacing a synchronous N+1 join with a denormalised projection in Postgres; cut DB CPU 22%.
Shipped a Next.js + TypeScript redesign of the billing dashboard used by 12k internal admins; reduced support tickets about pricing display by 61% quarter-over-quarter.

Associate Software Engineer

Brightline Group, 2019 to 2022

Led the migration of 14 services from a monorepo Lambda setup to ECS Fargate, cutting cold-start latency and saving $4.2k/month in AWS spend.
Wrote the team's incident-response runbook used during 3 SEV-1s; my services hit MTTD under 5 minutes on rotation.

Education

Bachelor of Science

Riverton University, 2015 to 2019

Sample content. Alex Morgan, the employers and the school shown above are fictional, and the contact details are reserved placeholders.

How to write a software engineer resume

Recruiters at scale-ups scan for the hard skills first (languages, cloud, databases), then verify with bullet evidence. Put the stack in a dedicated 'Technical Skills' block above experience, not buried at the end.

Quantify when you can. 'Improved performance' is filler: '38% lower p95 latency, 22% lower DB CPU' is signal.

Avoid 'passionate', 'team player', 'go-getter'. Avoid skill-bar graphics, two-column layouts, headshots, and tables: most ATS parsers strip them and your content with them.

Why software engineer applications get screened out

These are the failures specific to this role: the ones a generic CV guide will not warn you about.

A skills section listing every technology ever touched, so the genuinely strong ones are indistinguishable.
Bullets describing what the team shipped without saying what you built.
No system scale anywhere (traffic, data volume, service count), leaving level impossible to judge.
GitHub link to an empty or abandoned profile, which is worse than no link.
Two-column or graphic-heavy template, still the most common cause of a technically strong CV parsing badly.

What drives pay for this role

Engineering pay is driven mainly by scope and company stage rather than years. The levers that move it: whether you own systems end to end or implement against someone else's design, specialism (infrastructure, security and ML typically price above general application work), company funding stage and size, and location, including whether the employer pays location-adjusted or flat remote rates. Equity is a large and highly variable component at earlier-stage companies, so compare total packages rather than base salary.

Software Engineer resume questions

Do I need a GitHub or portfolio link?: Only if it is worth opening. An active profile with readable projects helps, particularly earlier in a career. An empty profile with three forked repos is a liability: leave it off rather than inviting the click.
How technical should the bullets be?: Specific enough that another engineer recognises the work, plain enough that a recruiter can match keywords. Name the technology and the outcome: 'replaced an N+1 join with a denormalised projection in Postgres; p95 down 38%' does both at once.
One page or two?: One page under roughly eight years of experience, two beyond that. Never cut a genuinely relevant project to hit one page: but do cut the university coursework once you have shipped production systems.
Should I list every language I have used?: No. List what you would be comfortable being interviewed in, and separate them if the levels differ. An interviewer picking the language you listed but barely used is a common and avoidable way to lose an offer.

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