Software Engineer resume example

Tech recruiters in India screen hundreds of engineering resumes for every opening. The ones that get calls name the exact stack in the posting, show scale with numbers, and fit on one or two pages.

Arjun Menon

Backend Engineer · Java, Spring Boot, AWS

Bengaluru · name@email.com · +91 98xxx xxxxx

Summary

Backend engineer with 4 years building payment and order services used by millions of customers. Comfortable owning a service end to end — design, code, on-call and cost.

Experience

Software Engineer II · A fintech product company

Jul 2023 – Present

Rebuilt the refunds service in Spring Boot and Kafka, cutting average refund time from 3 days to 4 hours
Reduced p99 API latency from 900 ms to 180 ms by adding Redis caching and fixing N+1 queries
Led a 3-person team migrating 40 cron jobs to AWS Step Functions with zero missed runs

Software Engineer · An IT services company (retail client)

Aug 2021 – Jun 2023

Built REST APIs for an order management system handling 50,000 orders a day
Raised unit test coverage from 35% to 80% and set up the team’s first CI pipeline

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science · A state engineering college, Kerala

2021

Skills

Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · AWS · Docker · Microservices · System design

Tips for a software engineer resume

✓Put the stack in the headline — recruiters search by “Java Spring Boot” or “React Node”, not by “Software Engineer”.
✓Every bullet should say what changed: latency, cost, users, time saved. “Worked on APIs” tells a recruiter nothing.
✓For IT services roles, name the client’s industry and your own contribution, not just the project name.
✓Add links to GitHub or a live project only if they’re up to date.