// ATS OPTIMIZATION GUIDE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Software Engineer ATS Resume Template

Download our professional, single-column software engineer resume template optimized for Greenhouse and Lever. Clean layout, tech stack highlights, and action verbs.

// SEMANTIC KEYWORDS

Recommended Skills & Keywords

Crucial entities parsed by Greenhouse, Workday, and Lever screening filters.

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsSystem DesignCI/CDAWSPostgreSQLDockerREST APIsGraphQL
// POWER ACTION VERBS

Strong Impact Action Verbs

Replace weak statements with these high-velocity action verbs.

ArchitectedDeployedOptimizedRefactoredScaledAutomatedImplementedDesigned
// PARSING PITFALL

Common Formatting Mistake

Avoid this to keep your CV parser-compliant.

Using tables, multi-column tables, or progress percentage bars to list coding skills. Standard ATS parsers read across rows rather than columns, merging unrelated skills, while graphic bars are completely ignored.

// STRUCTURE ADVICE

Layout Design Directions

Best practices for organizing and ordering content sections.

Create a dedicated Technical Skills section grouped by category (Languages, Frameworks, Developer Tools) and place it near the top of the resume. For experience bullets, always start with an action verb and end with quantifiable results.

// STRATEGY CHECKLIST

3-Step ATS Optimization Plan

Action steps to raise your ATS match score rating.

  1. 1

    Isolate technical keywords and place them in a clean comma-separated list.

  2. 2

    Ensure the contact header has no text inside templates or footers.

  3. 3

    Export the final output as a clean, text-based PDF rather than a scanned raster image.