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Backend Developer resume example — Entry-level (0–2 years)

Sample summary for Marcus Johnson

Backend developer with strong CS fundamentals, 1 production internship, and a personal API project with 200+ daily users. Comfortable building REST APIs, designing schemas, and writing tested, documented code. Eager to join a backend team where correctness and performance are non-negotiable.

Key skills
Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLREST APIsSQLDockerRedisGitJestPostman
Sample experience
Backend Engineering Intern
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Peakline · Dallas, TX
  • •Built a webhook delivery service processing 10K events/day with retry logic and exponential backoff
  • •Refactored 3 slow database queries, reducing average API response time for those endpoints by 62%
  • •Wrote 45 unit and integration tests for a previously untested payment module, catching 2 latent bugs
Personal Project: WeatherFlow API
Sep 2023 – Mar 2024
Self-built · Remote
  • •Built a public REST API aggregating 3 weather data sources, serving 200+ daily users with 99.2% uptime
  • •Implemented Redis caching that reduced upstream API calls by 80% and average response time to under 40ms
Tips for your Backend Developer resume

Entry backend resumes should show comfort with databases, APIs, and performance fundamentals. Personal projects count as real experience if they have real users and real production constraints. Always include a GitHub link, and make sure your code is presentable.

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Marcus Johnson
Junior Backend Developer · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Recent Graduate
Contact
marcus.johnson@email.com · (555) 234-5678 · New York, NY
Skills
· Node.js
· Python
· PostgreSQL
· REST APIs
· SQL
· Docker
· Redis
· Git
· Jest
· Postman
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Arizona State University
2024
Summary
Backend developer with strong CS fundamentals, 1 production internship, and a personal API project with 200+ daily users. Comfortable building REST APIs, designing schemas, and writing tested, documented code. Eager to join a backend team where correctness and performance are non-negotiable.
Experience
Backend Engineering InternJun 2024 – Aug 2024
Peakline · Dallas, TX
• Built a webhook delivery service processing 10K events/day with retry logic and exponential backoff
• Refactored 3 slow database queries, reducing average API response time for those endpoints by 62%
• Wrote 45 unit and integration tests for a previously untested payment module, catching 2 latent bugs
Personal Project: WeatherFlow APISep 2023 – Mar 2024
Self-built · Remote
• Built a public REST API aggregating 3 weather data sources, serving 200+ daily users with 99.2% uptime
• Implemented Redis caching that reduced upstream API calls by 80% and average response time to under 40ms