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Software Engineer Resume Example
Engineering recruiters skim for stack, scale, and shipped impact. This sample resume shows how a backend or full-stack engineer should quantify what they built — not just list what they touched — so the resume clears ATS filters and reads well to a senior reviewer.
Sample summary
Full-stack engineer (TypeScript, Go, AWS) who's shipped revenue-critical services at 10K+ RPS and led 3 zero-downtime migrations.
Strong software engineer resume bullets
- Designed and shipped a Go billing service handling 12K requests/sec with p99 latency under 80ms.
- Cut CI pipeline from 23 min to 6 min by parallelizing test shards and caching dependencies, saving ~40 dev hours/week.
- Led a zero-downtime Postgres 11 to 15 migration across 4 services, written up as the team's runbook.
- Reduced AWS spend by $14K/month by right-sizing RDS and moving stateless workloads to Fargate Spot.
- Mentored 2 junior engineers from first PR to independent feature ownership inside 6 months.
- Built an internal feature-flag library used by 9 teams, replacing 3 third-party tools.
ATS keywords to include
TypeScriptGoPostgreSQLAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDREST APIsMicroservicesRedisGraphQL
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