Free software engineer resume template
An ATS-friendly software engineer resume with a grouped technical skills section, impact-focused experience bullets with metrics, projects with links and education, for developer and engineering jobs. Sample content included.
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Ethan Nakamura Senior Backend Engineer · Go · Kubernetes · Payments Seattle, WA | (206) 555-0193 | ethan.nakamura@email.com | linkedin.com/in/ethannakamura | github.com/ethannakamura |
Summary
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building backend services in Go and TypeScript. Shipped a reconciliation service that handles 2 million payments a day and cut API latency by 78% on the busiest checkout endpoint. Seeking a senior backend engineer role working on payments or developer tools.
Technical skills
- Languages: Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL
- Frameworks and libraries: React, Node.js, gRPC, Express
- Cloud and DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB
- Practices: REST and gRPC APIs, Microservices, Unit and integration testing, CI/CD, Observability
Experience
Software Engineer II
Tidewater Payments, Seattle, WA | Jan 2023 – Present
- Designed and built a payments reconciliation service in Go that processes 2 million transactions a day, cutting manual review time by 70%
- Reduced p95 API latency on checkout from 800 ms to 180 ms by adding Redis caching and removing N+1 database queries
- Led the migration of 14 services from virtual machines to Kubernetes with zero customer-facing downtime
- Mentor 3 junior engineers and review about 20 pull requests a week for a team of 8
Software Engineer
Cascadia Learning, Portland, OR | Jul 2020 – Dec 2022
- Built a self-serve onboarding flow in React and Node.js that lifted sign-up completion by 18%
- Raised automated test coverage from 45% to 80% and cut the CI pipeline from 25 to 9 minutes
- Joined the on-call rotation for 6 services and wrote runbooks that halved mean time to recovery
Software Engineering Intern
Evergreen Robotics, Seattle, WA | Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
- Built a log search tool for the fleet team that cut incident triage from hours to minutes
Projects
queuelens | github.com/ethannakamura/queuelens
- Open-source dashboard for inspecting SQS and Kafka queues, built with Go, React and PostgreSQL
- 1,200 GitHub stars and contributions from 30 developers
Education
B.S. in Computer Science
University of Washington, Seattle, WA | Jun 2020
- Relevant coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems
Certifications
- AWS Certified Developer, Associate, 2022
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