Software Engineer Resume Template — ATS CV for Word and Google Docs
A general resume template buries your stack in prose and drops an unsorted skills list at the bottom. Engineering screening works the other way round: the technical block is the first thing both the filter and the hiring manager look for.
This pack puts it where it belongs, groups it the way postings group it, and replaces “responsible for” bullets with prompts that ask for a number.
What is in it
- Experienced layout (.docx) — two or more years writing production code.
- Junior and career-changer layout (.docx) — projects sit above employment, with a summary prompt for naming a career change on purpose. Included, not sold separately.
- Start Here guide (.pdf) — the engineering keyword list, bullet examples with real metrics, and how to tailor per posting.
- Plain text version (.txt) — for application portals that strip formatting.
The keyword list, grouped the way the skills block is
Systems match literally. TypeScript and TS are different strings, and so are PostgreSQL and Postgres — the guide tells you when to write both. The list is grouped as postings group it: languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, C#, C++, Ruby, PHP, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, SQL, Bash), frontend (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind, Redux, React Native, Webpack, Vite, accessibility), and backend and data (Node.js, Express, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring Boot, .NET, Rails, REST API, GraphQL and the rest).
Bullets that ask for a number
Every experience prompt asks what changed and by how much — latency, throughput, error rate, build time, team size, users served. “Responsible for the payments service” tells a hiring manager nothing that the job title did not already tell them.
What you need
Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice. No design app and no subscription.
Four files, on your Downloads page the moment you buy. Buy it on Etsy — $9
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Would you rather I rewrote it for you?
These are templates you fill in yourself. If you would rather hand the whole thing over, the ATS Resume Rewrite is made to order and comes back within 48 hours.
The other resume and CV templates are on the ATS Resume & CV Templates page.