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A software developer's CV shows what you built and how: the product, your languages and frameworks, how you test and release, and one result a user or the business noticed.

Keep the stack in its own list so it can be checked against the advert. This example is a developer with four years on a web product.

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Daniel Kowalski
Software Developer
Bristol · 07700 900224 · daniel.kowalski@example.com · github.com/dkowalski-example

Profile

Software developer with four years building a booking platform used by 1,200 UK gyms and studios. Works across C# and .NET APIs and a React front end, writes tests first and ships small changes every day. Looking for a mid-level or senior developer role on a product team.

Experience

Software Developer, Classbook Systems, Bristol 2023–present

Built the waiting-list feature in C# and React; it now fills about 9,000 cancelled places a month.

Moved the payments service to a queue, cutting failed bookings at peak times by 60%.

Write unit and integration tests and review pull requests; test coverage on the booking API rose from 48% to 81%.

Take part in the on-call rota and write up incidents with the fix and the follow-up.

Junior Developer, Classbook Systems, Bristol 2022–2023

Fixed bugs from the support queue and wrote release notes for each change.

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 2:1, University of Avonmouth 2019–2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate 2024

Tech

C#, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core

TypeScript, React

SQL Server, Azure Service Bus

Git, GitHub Actions, Docker

Skills

Test-driven development

API design

Code review

Incident response

Fictional example for a software developer. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

What development teams look for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you toWhere this CV shows it
Discuss client requirements and potential development ideasThe waiting-list feature, from the request to 9,000 places a month
Write or update computer codeC#, .NET and React work on the booking platform
Test software at each stage or iteration to find and fix problemsUnit and integration tests, and coverage up from 48% to 81%
Record changes made, with reasons, at each stage of developmentRelease notes, pull request reviews and incident write-ups
Maintain and support systems once they're up and runningThe on-call rota and the payments queue

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for a software developer.

Facts checked against National Careers Service: Software developer on .

Inside this example
  • Profile: 48 words here
  • Experience: 102 words here
  • Education: 18 words here
  • Tech: 20 words here
  • Skills: 12 words here

How to write yours

01

Say what the software does

One line on the product and its users tells a hiring manager the scale before the stack.

02

Give a result per bullet

Fewer failed bookings or faster pages show the change mattered; keep figures you could explain.

03

Keep the stack checkable

List languages, frameworks and tools you have shipped with, not ones you tried once.

04

Link code you may share

A GitHub link helps only if the code is yours to publish; never link an employer's private code.

Rules and checks for a software developer's CV

  • Routes in. You can become a software developer through a degree, a college course or an apprenticeship, such as the Software Developer Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship (National Careers Service). Experience counts as much as the route.
  • Technical tests. Many employers set a coding test or a pairing session; keep the CV's stack to what you could use in one.
  • Confidential work. Describe what you built and its effect, not client names, code or data your contract keeps private.

Compact and one page: experience and the tech list stay together, and the layout reads cleanly in applicant tracking systems.

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