Software Engineer CV Example and Writing Tips

Software Engineer CV summary examples

Two or three lines at the top of your CV. Say who you are, your strongest result, and what you want next.

Software engineer with 5 years building web and mobile products in fintech and e-commerce. I ship reliable features end to end and care about clean, tested code.
Full-stack developer (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) who has taken three products from prototype to thousands of daily users.

Start each bullet with a verb and end with a number. Recruiters and ATS both look for results, not duties.

Built a payments service handling 50,000 transactions a day with 99.9% uptime
Cut page load time by 45% by moving to server-side rendering and image optimisation
Led migration from a monolith to 6 services, reducing release time from 2 weeks to 2 days
Raised test coverage from 30% to 80% and halved production bugs in two quarters
Mentored 4 junior developers through code reviews and weekly pairing
Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions, saving the team 10 hours a week
Designed REST and GraphQL APIs used by 3 mobile apps and 2 partner integrations
Reduced cloud costs by 30% by right-sizing servers and caching hot queries

List the ones you really have, using the same words as the job advert so the ATS can match them.

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLREST APIsGitDockerAWSUnit testing

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