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Senior Software Engineer resume example
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Alex Morgan
Senior Software Engineer
alex.morgan@email.com · linkedin.com/in/alexmorgan · github.com/alexmorgan · San Francisco, CA
Professional summary
Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience shipping production systems in growth-stage and enterprise environments. Deep work across system design, cross-team leadership, and production reliability. Track record of leading cross-functional projects to measurable outcomes and mentoring engineers into senior roles.
Experience
Senior Senior Software Engineer
2023 — PresentAcme Technologies · San Francisco, CA
- Led system design initiatives across 4 product squads, reducing time-to-ship by 32% over two quarters while keeping reliability above the 99.95% target.
- Designed and shipped cross-team leadership-driven workflows that lifted weekly throughput from 12 to 19 features without adding headcount, partnering closely with production reliability stakeholders.
- Owned system design for a $4M revenue program, cutting incident MTTR from 47 to 12 minutes and earning the team's first quarterly excellence award.
- Mentored 3 engineers into senior roles by pairing on distributed systems, code reviews, and architecture deep-dives, raising team-wide code-review throughput by 40%.
Senior Software Engineer
2020 — 2023Northwind Labs · Remote
- Shipped a system design-centered redesign of the onboarding flow that lifted day-7 retention by 18% across 80k weekly signups.
- Partnered with product on a cross-team leadership initiative that cut p95 page-load latency from 2.4s to 0.9s, leaning heavily on production reliability for the harder calls.
- Migrated 14 legacy services to a unified system design pipeline; reduced operational overhead by ~25% and freed a full headcount for new product work using cross-team leadership.
Core skills
Education
B.S. Computer Science · University of Washington · 2015
Skills to include
- system design
- cross-team leadership
- production reliability
- distributed systems
Skills to leave off
- Generic soft skills with no proof ("team player", "hard worker")
- Tools you used once 5 years ago and can't speak to today
- Buzzwords without context ("synergy", "thought leader", "ninja")
What recruiters look for in a Senior Software Engineer resume
- Title-match in the first 6 seconds. The summary and most-recent job title should both read "Senior Software Engineer". Recruiters skim top-to-bottom and bail when titles don't line up.
- Quantified bullets, every line. Every Senior Software Engineer bullet should carry a number: a percentage, a dollar figure, a count, or a duration. Bullets without numbers get read as "participated in" not "shipped".
- Show depth, not just breadth. Two skills used deeply (system design, cross-team leadership) beat ten skills listed shallowly. ATS scoring rewards depth signals.
- Keep it to one page through 8 years, two pages after. Senior Software Engineer hiring managers want signal density. Filler hurts more than helps.
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