Software engineer resume example
Engineering recruiters scan for your stack and for evidence of impact. This example shows a mid-level engineer’s resume and how to write bullets that show scale and outcomes rather than tasks.
By the OpusStride team · Updated · 1 min read
Example software engineer resume
Written for US employers. The employer is fictional and the figures are illustrative — replace them with your own.
Professional summary
Backend software engineer with 5 years of experience building high-traffic APIs in Go and Python. Led the migration of a payments service to Kubernetes and cut p95 latency by 40%. Comfortable owning services end to end, from design review to on-call.
Experience
Software Engineer II
Brightline Payments (fictional), Remote · Feb 2022 – Present
- Designed and built an idempotent payments API in Go handling 3M requests per day with 99.98% availability.
- Led migration of 14 services from VMs to Kubernetes, reducing infrastructure cost by 28%.
- Cut p95 checkout latency from 620ms to 370ms by introducing request batching and a Redis cache.
- Mentored 3 junior engineers and introduced a design-review template adopted across the platform team.
Skills
Go · Python · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kubernetes · AWS · gRPC · Terraform · CI/CD
Writing impact bullets
Each bullet should answer "so what?". Name the technology, the scale and the result — latency, cost, reliability, revenue, or developer time saved.
| Task-focused | Impact-focused |
|---|---|
| Worked on the search service. | Rebuilt search indexing in Elasticsearch, cutting query time from 1.2s to 180ms for 2M daily searches. |
| Wrote unit tests. | Raised test coverage from 45% to 80% on the billing service, eliminating a class of regressions that caused 3 incidents a quarter. |
Projects and links
Include a projects section if you are early in your career, changing specialty, or have open-source work worth discussing. Keep GitHub and portfolio links as plain, selectable text — not icons.
Frequently asked questions
- Should a software engineer list every technology they know?
- No. List the technologies you could discuss confidently in an interview, prioritising the ones in the job description.
- Is a one-page resume required for engineers?
- For most engineers with under about ten years of experience, yes. Staff-level engineers sometimes need two.
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Put it into practice
Build it from a region-matched template, then check what an ATS reads.