What should a software engineer resume include?
Engineering managers in India look for the stack you have shipped production code in, the scale of the systems you worked on, and what your code changed for users or the team. Specific bullets about latency, reliability or delivery speed beat long technology lists, and a linked GitHub or project helps freshers stand out quickly.
Skills recruiters look for:
- Data structures and algorithms
- System design
- Backend API development
- Distributed systems and messaging
- Database design and query tuning
From our sample resumes:
- Rahul’s indexing bullet explains the problem, the fix and the effect, which is exactly the reasoning an interviewer will ask a fresher backend candidate to walk through.
- Fatima leads with the Next.js migration and its page-speed result, showing seniority through architectural decisions rather than a long list of frameworks.