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Software Engineer résumé — what actually clears the screen

Software Engineer openings draw hundreds of applications, so the first screen is almost always ATS keyword matching plus a sub-minute recruiter scan. The résumés that survive lead with shipped work and measurable impact — stack named explicitly, scope stated plainly — and keep formatting boring enough that no parser mangles it. Here is the structure that gets you to the technical round.

What recruiters look for

The exact stack from the JD, named in your skills and inside your bullets — 'built with React + Node.js + Postgres', not 'full-stack development'.
Shipped things: features in production, users served, systems maintained. Projects count when they're deployed and described concretely.
Impact numbers where they're real: latency cut, load handled, hours automated, adoption. One honest metric beats five adjectives.
Fundamentals signals for early-career: data structures & algorithms practice, system-design exposure, Git workflow, code review.
Clean, single-column, parser-safe formatting — no tables, no text boxes, no headshots. ATS mangles decorative layouts.

Skills & keywords to name explicitly

One primary language, deep (Java / Python / JavaScript)A framework you've shipped with (Spring Boot / Django / React / Node)SQL + one database (Postgres / MySQL)Git + code review workflowREST API designData structures & algorithmsTesting (unit + integration)Linux / basic cloud (AWS or equivalent)

Example structure

Software Engineer · 2 years · backend-leaning full-stack
›Built and shipped the payments-reconciliation service (Node.js + Postgres) that matches gateway settlements to orders daily, replacing a manual spreadsheet process.
›Cut checkout API p95 latency ~38% by adding query-level caching and fixing N+1 queries found through profiling.
›Owned the migration of the monolith's auth module to a shared service used by three internal apps.

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