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Full-stack engineer resume template

This full-stack engineer resume template stays ATS-safe with standard headings, plain contact text, normal bullets, and a single-column layout. It is role-specific by showing end-to-end ownership across React, TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, databases, testing, cloud deployment, and product metrics.

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Sample resume

Single-column, plain-text structure with standard headings and quantified bullets.

The person, employers, and figures in this sample are illustrative, written to show the format.

Hannah Morris

hannah.morris@example.com+44 20 7946 0189linkedin.com/in/hannahmorrisgithub.com/hannahmorris

Summary

Full-stack engineer with 8 years shipping React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres products from idea to production.

Strong across UI architecture, API design, database modelling, testing, observability, and product-minded delivery.

Experience

Senior Full-stack Engineer

PeopleOps Cloud | London, UK | March 2022 - Present

  • Lead development of onboarding workflows used by 1,600 companies and 210k employees.
  • Built React and Node.js features that reduced HR admin setup time from 42 minutes to 16 minutes.
  • Designed Postgres schemas and REST APIs for custom approvals with audit logging and role-based access control.
  • Improved frontend and API test coverage from 48% to 81% using Playwright, Vitest, and contract tests.
  • Partner with PM and design on discovery, slicing, release planning, and post-launch metric reviews.

Full-stack Engineer

HireLoop | Brighton, UK | June 2018 - February 2022

  • Shipped candidate scheduling, feedback, and offer workflows in React, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Reduced interview scheduling support tickets by 39% through calendar sync and clearer error recovery.
  • Migrated background jobs to Sidekiq and Redis, cutting average job latency by 57%.
  • Deployed feature flags and release dashboards that shortened rollback decisions to under 10 minutes.

Software Developer

BlueOak Digital | Exeter, UK | September 2015 - May 2018

  • Built responsive customer portals using JavaScript, Node.js, Express, and MySQL.
  • Integrated payment, email, and analytics providers for 20 client applications.
  • Improved page load time by 34% with asset optimisation and server-side caching.
  • Created deployment scripts and smoke tests that reduced failed releases by 25%.

Skills

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Tailwind CSS

Backend

Node.js, Express, Ruby on Rails, REST, Postgres

Testing

Playwright, Vitest, Jest, Contract tests

Platform

AWS, Docker, Redis, GitHub Actions, Sentry

Education

  • BSc Computer Science, University of Manchester
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Adapting this template for Full-stack engineer applications

The trap in full-stack applications is claiming equal depth everywhere, so adapt this template by declaring your stronger side honestly. A junior candidate should show one complete feature carried from interface to database, like the portal work in the BlueOak role, rather than fragments of many. Senior applicants should mirror the top role: schema design and API decisions alongside interface work, plus the product collaboration bullet, because seniority in this role means owning the whole slice including the conversations around it.

Screeners check that both halves of the stack appear with evidence, not just keywords. React and TypeScript need frontend outcomes next to them; Node.js and Postgres need API or data outcomes. This sample alternates deliberately, putting a setup-time reduction beside schema and access-control work. The other early check is testing across layers, which is why Playwright, Vitest, and contract tests appear together; full-stack candidates who test only one layer get read as single-stack engineers with a hopeful title.

Rejection patterns to avoid: splitting experience into frontend and backend subsections, which fragments each job's story and confuses parsers; listing four frontend frameworks and four backend frameworks, which signals surface exposure; and having no bullet that spans the boundary. The strongest full-stack bullets describe one feature end to end, the way the approvals work here covers schema, API, audit logging, and access control in a single line.

ATS notes for Full-stack engineer

  • Show both frontend and backend keywords, including React, TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, Postgres, and testing.
  • Quantify full-stack impact through user adoption, workflow time saved, support reduction, latency, or conversion.
  • Avoid splitting the resume into frontend and backend columns because parsers can scramble job context.
  • Include product collaboration terms when targeting product-engineer or full-stack roles.
  • Use GitHub in the header for technical proof, especially if the role asks for code samples.

Full-stack engineer resume questions

Does full-stack mean I should apply to both frontend and backend roles?

You can, but retune the resume each time rather than sending this template unchanged. For a backend posting, move API, schema, and background-job bullets up; for frontend, lead with the interface and testing work. Screeners judge the top third of the page, so the same history ordered differently produces different outcomes.

How do I prove depth when my experience is spread across the stack?

Anchor each role around one system you understood completely. The sample's onboarding workflow bullet covers the interface, the API, and the measured result in one line, which reads as depth. Breadth shows up naturally in the skills groups; the bullets should each go deep on a single feature or system.

Which metrics work best on a full-stack resume?

Product-level ones, because they cover both halves at once. Workflow time saved, adoption, support-ticket reduction, and conversion all appear in this sample and each implies competent work across the stack. Layer-specific numbers like job latency or coverage percentages are good seconds, but lead with the outcome a user or customer would notice.

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