This page is for software engineers applying to product companies, startups, or enterprise teams. Software engineer resumes are judged fast: a recruiter spends under a minute deciding whether your experience sounds senior, relevant, and measurable. A strong resume leads with impact shipped to production, names the stack precisely, and quantifies scale wherever possible.
ALEX MORGAN Email: alex.morgan@example.com | Phone: +1 555 010 0091 | San Francisco, CA | linkedin.com/in/alexmorgan PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Software engineer with 5 years building and scaling web platforms serving 2M+ monthly users. Cut API p95 latency 43% and led a zero-downtime migration of 120k lines of legacy code to TypeScript. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Software Engineer | Northwind Labs | 2022 - Present - Rebuilt the orders service in Go, cutting p95 response time from 840ms to 310ms and eliminating 90% of peak-hour timeout alerts. - Led the AWS migration of 14 services across 3 teams, finishing two weeks early and cutting monthly infrastructure spend by $4,300. - Introduced load testing in CI, catching 3 capacity-breaking regressions before each reached production. Junior Software Engineer | BrightApps | 2020 - 2022 - Shipped 30+ features for a React and Node.js SaaS product used by 40,000 monthly active users. - Raised unit test coverage from 34% to 81% across 9 services, halving production regressions. SKILLS TypeScript, Python, Go, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD EDUCATION B.S. Computer Science, University of California, 2020
"Software engineer with 5 years building and scaling web platforms serving 2M+ monthly users. Cut API p95 latency 43% by redesigning the caching layer, and led the migration of 120k lines of legacy code to TypeScript with zero downtime. Comfortable owning features from design doc to production monitoring."
Why it works: It leads with years and scale, proves impact with two concrete metrics, and ends with ownership scope. Every claim is verifiable in the experience section below it.
TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, SQL
React, Node.js, Next.js, Django, Spring Boot
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform
Code review, Testing, Agile, System design, Observability
The pattern to copy: strong verb, specific action, measurable result. Compare each weak version with its rebuild:
Example 1
Bad: Worked on backend services and fixed bugs when needed.
Good: Rebuilt the orders service in Go, cutting p95 response time from 840ms to 310ms and eliminating 90% of timeout alerts during peak traffic.
Why: The bad version lists presence, not contribution. The good version names the system, the action, and before/after numbers a hiring manager can trust.
Example 2
Bad: Responsible for writing unit tests for the team.
Good: Raised unit test coverage from 34% to 81% across 9 services, reducing production regressions by roughly half over two quarters.
Why: It converts a duty into an outcome. Coverage numbers plus the business result (fewer regressions) show judgment, not just compliance.
Example 3
Bad: Helped with the migration to the cloud.
Good: Led the AWS migration of 14 services across 3 teams, finishing 2 weeks early and cutting monthly infrastructure spend by $4,300 through right-sized instances.
Why: Scope (14 services, 3 teams), outcome (early, cheaper), and initiative are all visible. 'Helped with' tells the reader nothing about your actual role.
Include the terms the job posting uses, and make sure each one is backed by evidence in a bullet. Common keywords for this role:
software engineerbackendfrontendfull-stacksystem designREST APImicroservicesunit testingCI/CDcode reviewagiledistributed systems
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Check my resume freeOne page if you have under 8 years of experience. Two pages is acceptable for senior or staff engineers with a long record of shipped systems. Anything longer usually means responsibilities are being listed instead of outcomes.
No. List the languages the target role actually uses, plus your strongest secondary languages. A wall of 20 technologies dilutes the stack you are genuinely strong in and can look like keyword stuffing to reviewers.
Yes, especially with under 3 years of professional experience. Treat projects like jobs: one or two lines each with the problem, the stack, and a measurable outcome such as users, stars, or performance results.
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