Software Engineer Resume Example (Structure and Bullets)

Engineering resumes work when a hiring manager can see your stack and one or two shipped outcomes in 20 seconds. Use MineResume’s Professional Sidebar or Modern template, then keep bullets specific.

Suggested order

• Header: name, email, city, GitHub, LinkedIn (full URLs or clean handles).
• Summary: years of experience, primary languages, type of systems (APIs, mobile, data).
• Skills: languages, frameworks, databases, cloud — grouped, not a paragraph.
• Experience: company, title, dates, 3–5 bullets each.
• Projects: only if they are public or as substantial as a job.
• Education.

Bullet pattern

Verb + what you built + how (tech) + result. Weak: “Responsible for backend.” Stronger: “Built REST endpoints in Node.js for order status, cutting timeout errors by 30% after adding retries.”

What to cut

• Every programming language you touched in college if you cannot answer questions on it.
• Soft-skill lists with no evidence (team player, hard worker).
• Screenshots inside the PDF; link a portfolio instead.

Sample experience bullets

• Shipped a Node.js API for order status with retries after timeout errors showed up in logs.
• Wrote Playwright tests for checkout and caught a tax-rounding bug before release.
• Documented local setup in the README so two new joiners could run the app on day one.

Intern vs full-time

Interns should emphasize one or two merged PRs or a demo, not every tutorial. Full-time engineers should show ownership of a service or a metric. Keep GitHub in the header.