Software Engineer Resume Example (2026 Sample)

A full software engineer resume example with bullet points, skills and summary you can copy, plus what recruiters and ATS look for.

Jordan Alvarez

Software Engineer
Austin, TX · jordan@example.com

Summary

Software engineer with 5 years building and scaling web applications. Focused on performance, reliability and shipping features end to end.

Experience

Software EngineerNorthwind Software

2022 — Present
  • Rebuilt the checkout flow in React and TypeScript, cutting page load time by 41% and lifting conversion 12%.
  • Designed and shipped a queue-based notification service handling 3M events per day with 99.98% uptime.
  • Reduced production incidents 35% by adding integration test coverage and structured error monitoring.
  • Mentored two junior engineers through onboarding and code review.

Junior Software EngineerCobalt Labs

2020 — 2022
  • Built internal admin tooling used daily by 60 support agents, removing ~10 hours of manual work weekly.
  • Migrated legacy REST endpoints to a typed API layer, eliminating a recurring class of null-data bugs.

Skills

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDTestingSystem design

Education

University of Texas at AustinB.S. Computer Science2016 — 2020