Resume for a Software Engineer
A developer resume fails when it lists a stack and calls that an achievement. The reader wants to know what you owned, at what scale, and what changed.
What a recruiter checks first
In roughly this order, in the first fifteen seconds.
The same experience, written twice
Left is what most software engineer resumes say. Right is the same claim, made properly.
Illustrative examples — not an actual customer's resume.
Terms an ATS filters on
Use the ones that are true of you, in the experience itself rather than stuffed into a list.
- system design
- microservices
- REST APIs
- CI/CD
- unit testing
- code review
- cloud infrastructure
- on-call
The mistake specific to this role
A forty-item skills list. It tells a reader you have used a computer. Separate what you are strong in from what you have touched, and let the experience prove the first group.
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