Free Software engineer / developer CV template
Show the systems you built and the engineering work you owned.
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What makes this software engineer template different
Name your stack and quantify improvements such as reliability or performance where you can.
What to include
- • Technical skills and languages
- • Engineering experience and impact
- • Projects, education, and links
- • Lead with your stack: ATS and recruiters search for exact tool names.
- • Every bullet should pair a technical action with a measurable outcome (latency, uptime, cost, release speed).
- • Link a GitHub or portfolio that actually works. Remove it if it is empty.
ATS keywords for software engineer roles
REST APIsmicroservicesCI/CDAgile / Scrumcode reviewunit testingcloud (AWS/Azure)system designSQLGit
Use only the keywords that are true for you, in the job post's exact wording.
Results worth quantifying
- • Latency / throughput change
- • Uptime or incident reduction
- • Build or release time saved
- • Users or requests served
- • Infrastructure cost saved
Mistakes to avoid
- • Listing every technology you ever touched instead of the ones the job asks for
- • Describing tasks ('worked on backend') instead of what you owned and what changed
- • Skill bars or star ratings, which ATS cannot read and recruiters distrust