TechMid-level (3–5 years)
Software Engineer resume example — Mid-level (3–5 years)
Sample summary for Alex Rivera
Full-stack engineer with 4 years of experience shipping consumer-facing products at scale. Owns features end-to-end, writes production-ready code with thorough test coverage, and consistently reduces infrastructure overhead on the teams I join.
Key skills
GoTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesDockerAWSGraphQLTerraformCI/CDDatadog
Sample experience
Software Engineer
2022 – Present
Meridian Cloud · Seattle, WA
- •Redesigned the authentication service to support SAML SSO, unlocking 8 enterprise contracts worth $1.2M ARR
- •Led migration from REST to GraphQL for 3 core endpoints, cutting average client payload size by 55%
- •Reduced CI pipeline runtime from 22 minutes to 7 minutes by parallelizing test suites across 4 workers
- •On-call rotation owner for the billing service — resolved 100% of P1 incidents within SLA for 18 consecutive months
Software Engineer
2020 – 2022
Trellis App · Remote
- •Built real-time notifications system using WebSockets serving 50K concurrent users with <100ms latency
- •Migrated 3 legacy PHP services to Go microservices, improving throughput by 4x under equivalent load
- •Introduced E2E testing with Playwright, catching 9 critical regressions before they reached production
Tips for your Software Engineer resume
Mid-level SWE resumes should show ownership, not just contribution. Use bullets that start with 'Led', 'Designed', 'Owned' alongside 'Built' and 'Shipped'. Hiring managers look for evidence you can operate independently and think beyond your immediate ticket.
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