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Software Engineer resume example

A backend-focused engineer in Bengaluru with five years of payments and e-commerce systems work.

Karthik Raghavan and every employer, institution and figure on this resume are fictional. Use it for structure and ideas, then replace the details with your own.

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How to write a strong software engineer resume

Tip 1
Pair every technical change with the result it produced: latency, uptime, cost or incidents avoided, not just the stack you used.
Tip 2
Name languages, frameworks and cloud services exactly as job posts write them (PostgreSQL, Spring Boot, Kubernetes) so keyword searches find you.
Tip 3
Show scale with concrete numbers such as requests per day, number of sellers or services owned. Scale tells a reader how hard the problem was.
Tip 4
Include one or two lines about mentoring or code review. Mid-level roles are judged on how you lift the team, not only on your own tickets.

What's in this example

Summary · Short overview paragraph
Experience · 2 roles
Projects · 1 entry
Education · 1 qualification
Skills · 3 groups

Summary

Backend-leaning software engineer with 5 years building payment and order systems in Go, Java and PostgreSQL. Comfortable owning services end to end, from design and code review to on-call and cloud cost, and enjoys mentoring newer engineers.

Experience

Software Engineer II, Coralwave Payments

Bengaluru · Apr 2023 – Present

Architected an idempotent refunds service in Go that handles 1.8 million requests a day at 99.95% monthly availability
Cut p95 checkout API latency from 640 ms to 210 ms by adding Redis caching and rewriting three N+1 PostgreSQL queries
Migrated 14 nightly cron jobs to an event-driven Kafka pipeline, eliminating reconciliation failures that cost support 6 hours a week

Software Engineer, Tarangi Commerce

Bengaluru · Jul 2021 – Mar 2023

Built the seller-inventory REST API in Java and Spring Boot, adopted by 12,000+ sellers within 6 months of launch
Reduced monthly AWS spend by ₹4.2 lakh by right-sizing EC2 instances and moving cold order data to S3
Wrote contract tests for 9 internal services, lowering integration-related production incidents by 35%

Skills

Languages: Go, Java, Python, SQL
Backend: Spring Boot, gRPC, REST, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Grafana

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