40 Words to Include Into Your Developer Resume

In one of my previous blog posts, I talked about ways to improve your resume’s bullet points. Here, I’d like to focus on the adjectives that you can use to make your experience descriptions even more attention-grabbing.

Along with the team at , a tech resume analyzer, we perused over 1,000 current vacancies at growing tech companies from around the world. Here’s a list of the modifiers that are used most frequently:

• Developed automated analysis system from scratch capable of processing 15 million statistical operations per day.
• Built a highly available, fault-tolerant microservice architecture based on Go, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, and GraphQL.
• Designed and implemented a modular, extendable, and easily  maintainable  architecture for the overall system.
• Built and led a team of 7 high-performing software engineers.
• Self-taught software engineer with 5+ years of experience developing robust Spring-based Java back-end applications for high-volume businesses.
• Led the development of XYZ’s scalable team messaging/collaboration platform for asynchronous communications.
• Refactored large legacy application into reusable architecture.
• Designed a distributed system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets.
• Developed a 100% automated scoring system for evaluating incoming resumes.
• Set up highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure using AWS.
• Implemented Solr cluster for near real-time search, resulting in a 20% reduction in search time.

For these adjectives to be effective, combine them with strong action verbs and numbers, as in the examples above.

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