How to Write a Software Developer CV

What a hiring team looks for

Recruiters skim for the stack, the seniority and the kind of work you have done. Engineers then look for evidence: what you built, how big it was, and what changed because of it. A CV that answers those questions in the first half page gets read; a list of technologies without context usually does not.

A structure that works

Keep the layout plain so both people and applicant tracking systems can read it. A reliable order is:

• Header: name, role you are targeting, email, city, and links to GitHub, LinkedIn or a portfolio (only if they are worth opening).
• Short summary: two or three lines on your focus, your main stack and the kind of products you work on.
• Skills: grouped by area (languages, frameworks, databases, cloud and tooling) rather than one long list.
• Experience: newest first, with the company, your role, the dates and three to five bullet points.
• Projects: one to three that show real work, with a short description and a link.
• Education and certifications: brief, and placed lower unless you are early in your career.

Write what changed, not what you were assigned

Bullet points such as "responsible for the backend" say little. Describe the problem, what you did and the result: a service you moved to a new architecture, a release process you shortened, a query you made faster, an incident you helped prevent. Add numbers where you genuinely have them, and leave them out where you do not.

Keep each bullet to one or two lines and start with a verb. If you cannot say why a bullet matters to the reader, replace it.

Be specific and honest about your skills

List the technologies you can discuss in an interview. Anything you have only touched once belongs in a project description, not in the skills block. Naming versions or the way you used a tool (for example, "PostgreSQL: schema design and query tuning") is more convincing than a bare keyword.

Tailor it to each posting

Two developer postings can ask for very different things: one stresses reliability and on-call work, another stresses product delivery with React and TypeScript. Reorder your experience, adjust your summary and use the posting's own terms where they truthfully describe what you did.

rezme keeps one profile with your experience, education, projects and skills. You paste the job description and it produces a CV targeted to that posting from the information in your profile, which you can review and edit before exporting. It is not meant to invent employers, projects or skills you do not have, so check the result before you send it.

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