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Software Engineer resume example

A mid-level engineer who leads with what their code changed for the business, not a list of technologies. Each job shows scale, ownership and a result.

The example resume

Priya Raman

Software Engineer, Backend

Backend engineer with six years building payment and billing systems in Go and TypeScript. Moved a monolith's billing to event-driven services handling 3 million invoices a month. Looking for a senior role on a platform team.

Experience

Software Engineer, Northwind Payments 2021–now

Billing and invoicing platform for 40,000 small businesses.

  • Split billing out of the monolith into four Go services; invoice runs went from 6 hours to 40 minutes.
  • Designed idempotent retries for card payments, cutting duplicate charges to zero over 18 months.
  • Mentored three graduate engineers; two now own services of their own.
  • On call for payments; wrote the runbooks the team uses for its five most common incidents.

Software Developer, Lumen Health 2018–2021

Appointment booking for 300 clinics.

  • Built the booking API in Node.js and PostgreSQL that took 1.2 million bookings a year.
  • Cut page load on the patient booking flow from 4.1s to 1.3s by caching clinic availability.

Education

BMath, Computer Science, University of Waterloo 2018

Skills

  • Languages: Go, TypeScript, SQL
  • Backend: PostgreSQL, Kafka, gRPC, REST APIs
  • Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Practices: Code review, Incident response, Mentoring