What to highlight
- The products or systems you worked on and who used them
- Your part: features you owned, services you maintained
- Languages, frameworks and infrastructure
- Testing, code review, CI/CD and on-call work
- Collaboration in agile or scrum teams
Example bullets
Copy one, then change the numbers and details so it is true for you.
- Built and maintained payment services in Java and Spring Boot for a fintech app.
- Added automated tests and a CI pipeline that caught errors before each release.
- Moved a reporting job from a cron server to AWS Lambda, removing a server the team had to patch.
- Reviewed pull requests for a team of six engineers and wrote onboarding docs for new hires.
Skills
Words employers look for
Our score checks for these terms in Software & Technology job posts. Use the ones that are true for you.
Tips
- List the stack per project or job, not only in a skills block.
- Link your GitHub or portfolio.
Questions
Should I list my GitHub?
Yes, if it has work you are happy for a recruiter to open. One or two good projects matter more than many empty ones.
How technical should my bullets be?
Technical enough for an engineer to understand, but start with what the work did for users or the team.