Developers are hired for results, not buzzwords. Your resume should show in thirty seconds: stack, level of experience and at least one measurable result. The sample below shows what that can look like, with a fictional person and wording you can transfer to your own positions.

Sample resume

The following resume belongs to a fictional sample person. It shows structure, order and wording for the role Software Developer.

How to write the profile text

“Backend developer with five years of experience in Java and TypeScript. Focus: APIs, distributed databases and reliable delivery. Looking for a role with responsibility for architecture and code quality.”

Three sentences are enough: experience with years and stack, focus, goal. Adapt the last sentence to the job. If you want to lead a team, say so; if you want to go deeper into the technology, say that.

Work experience: bullet points to adopt

Start every bullet with an action verb and name a result. You can adapt these patterns to your positions, with your own provable numbers:

Results

• Built a REST API for 40 partner integrations; cut response time by 35%.
• Cut pipeline build time from 22 to 8 minutes.
• Optimised database queries; reduced dashboard load time from 6 to 2 seconds.

Responsibility

• Took over code reviews for an engineering squad of six developers.
• Prepared and supported the architecture decision to migrate to microservices.
• Guided two junior developers and introduced them to the codebase.

Skills that count

Order skills by relevance for the job, not alphabetically, and name years of experience or context for the most important ones.

• Languages with experience, for example “Java (5 years), TypeScript (4 years)”
• Databases and persistence: PostgreSQL, migrations, performance tuning
• Delivery tools: Git, Docker, CI/CD, AWS
• Practices: automated testing, code review, agile workflows
• Spoken languages: English and additional languages with proficiency level

Common mistakes

• A long list of technologies without context: it does not say what you built with them.
• Duties instead of results: “Maintained the API” says less than “Cut response time by 35%”.
• Links to GitHub profiles that have been empty for years. Link two or three projects you would still show today.

Matching template

For applications at tech companies, review our ATS checklist. Build a matching cover letter with the guide on cover letters, or see our international resume structure guide.