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Resume Keywords for Software Engineer

Core engineering keywords and high-signal action verbs for SWE roles.

Recommended Keywords

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsAPI designmicroservicescloud infrastructureCI/CDtestingperformance optimizationsystem designobservability

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  • Shipped React features that reduced page load time by 35% using code-splitting.
  • Designed REST APIs in Node.js handling 2M requests/day with 99.9% uptime.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines cutting deploy time from 20 minutes to 5 minutes.

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