Senior software engineer resume with fourteen years of experience and team leadership — Laid out with the Classic template. All details are fictitious.

Senior Software Engineer Resume Example

Past ten years in, nobody judges you on the length of your language list. They judge your decisions: architecture, quality, how you raise the people around you. This example of a staff-level engineer shows what he made possible for the team and the product.

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The person, contact details and employers are fictitious. Replace them with your own information.

Skills to highlight

System design
TypeScript
Node.js
AWS
Technical leadership
Hiring

What makes it work

Lead with technical decisions you owned and their effect: hosting costs, uptime, deployment frequency.
Show leadership even without a manager title: mentoring, hiring, design reviews, engineers you helped grow.
Shrink early roles to one line; detail matters most for the last five to eight years.
Keep the skills list short and current; a framework you last used in 2012 does not belong there.

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Michael Sullivan — Senior Software Engineer — Platform and Cloud

Software engineer with fourteen years of experience, the last five as tech lead. I design systems that hold up under load and help teams ship daily without drama.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead · Online Travel Platform, Denver, CO (Mar 2021 – Present)
- Tech lead for 8 engineers; hired 5 of them
- Moved the platform to services on AWS, cutting hosting costs 30%
- Took releases from monthly to daily
Software Engineer II · Payroll Software Company, Boulder, CO (Jun 2016 – Feb 2021)
- Rewrote the payroll engine (40,000 paychecks a month) with zero downtime
- Mentored 4 junior engineers
Software Engineer · IT Consulting Firm, Denver, CO (Sep 2012 – May 2016)
- Built internal applications for banking and insurance clients

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering · State University (2008 – 2012)

Skills

System design · TypeScript · Node.js · AWS · Technical leadership

Why this example works

Every recent role is described by what changed because of the candidate: 30% lower hosting costs, daily releases, a rewrite with zero downtime. An engineering director reads these lines as evidence of judgment, which carries more weight than any list of technologies.

Leadership is quantified (8 engineers, 5 hires) without inflating the title. The first job fits on one line, which keeps the resume tight. The single-column Classic template suits companies that receive many applications and rely on an applicant tracking system.

Keywords to mirror

Applicant tracking systems and recruiters scan for these terms. Reuse the ones that appear in the job posting, word for word.

Senior software engineer
Tech lead
System design
Microservices
AWS
TypeScript
Node.js
CI/CD
Mentoring
Code review
Technical hiring

Mistakes to avoid for this role

Detailing every job since your first internship across three pages.
Describing technical tasks without saying what they changed for the team or the business.
Hiding leadership because your official title never said “manager”.

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