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Software Engineer resume keywords
The skills, tools and terms recruiters search for when hiring a software engineer, and a free check of which ones your resume is missing.
Screeners look for the exact languages and frameworks in the posting, plus evidence that you shipped and maintained production systems.
Skills and keywords
Tools and software
Soft skills
Use the exact wording from the posting you are applying to. Only include what is true for you.
Example software engineer resume bullets
Keywords work best inside achievements. Each example pairs a keyword with a number:
- Built a payments microservice in Java handling 2M requests per day with 99.98% uptime
- Cut API latency by 45% by adding Redis caching and rewriting three slow SQL queries
- Raised unit test coverage from 52% to 86% and reduced production incidents by 30%
Check your resume for software engineer keywords
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Where to put keywords
- Summary: your job title in the posting's words plus your two strongest matching skills.
- Skills section: tools and hard skills, spelled the way the posting spells them.
- Experience bullets: each important skill used in a sentence with a result. A skill that appears only in a list is weak evidence.
More in how to tailor your resume in 15 minutes and how to add numbers to your bullets.