Software Engineer Resume Example

“Results-driven software engineer with 5+ years of experience designing, building, and shipping scalable web applications. Proficient in full-stack development with React and Node.js, with a track record of reducing page load times and improving system reliability across high-traffic platforms.”

• Built and deployed a microservices-based order processing system that handles about 12,000 transactions per minute with 99.95% uptime
• Cut average API response time by 40% by reworking slow PostgreSQL queries, adding a Redis caching layer, and tuning connection pooling
• Responsible for migrating the main monolith to event-driven microservices over 6 months - deployment time went from 4 hours to 15 minutes
• Ran code reviews and pair programming sessions with 6 junior engineers. Team velocity improved about 25% over two quarters
• Set up the CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions with automated testing and zero-downtime deployments. Coverage sits at 95%
• Worked closely with the product team to scope and estimate features for a React + Node.js platform serving 50K daily active users
• Wrote integration tests for 3 critical payment flows that had been untested. Caught 2 race conditions before they hit production
• On-call rotation lead for a team of 8 - handled incident response, wrote postmortems, and kept our SLA above 99.9%
• Refactored the notification service from a polling model to WebSockets, which dropped server costs by about $800/month

Include these keywords in your resume to pass Applicant Tracking Systems.

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate
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