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Resume rewrites for front-end, back-end, full-stack and mobile engineers. Written by a former Google recruiter who screened 10,000+ software engineering resumes.

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13 Years recruiting
10,000s Engineers screened
1,500+ Resumes rewritten
4.9 Fiverr · 419 reviews
Ex-Google Recruiter

A software engineer resume writing service run by a recruiter

Emmanuel Gendre, software engineer resume writer and ex-Google recruiter

Emmanuel Gendre Ex-Google recruiter, tech resume writer

Hi there, I’m Emmanuel!

I’m a former Google recruiter who left the corporate world to write resumes for software engineers. I’ve turned everything I know about hiring top engineering talent into a writing methodology designed to pass phone screens.

A lot of what you read online about resumes is generic and uninformed, which is what gets most devs rejected at screening. I’m not here to sell you a beautiful template or better action verbs. I focus on the only thing recruiters care about: technical content.

I’ve helped hundreds of software engineers land top-paying roles, from new grads to staff-level positions:

  • Front-end developers
  • Back-end developers
  • Full-stack developers
  • Mobile developers
  • Embedded developers
  • Game developers
  • Blockchain developers
  • Software architects

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A recruiter screen, but with feedback

You’ve applied to dozens of software engineering roles: no result. Companies won’t tell you why, so the same resume keeps going out and the same silence keeps coming back.

Let’s break that loop today!

I’ll screen your resume the same way I did at Google.

You’ll get:

  • Your resume sections and content scored.
  • A clear list of what to improve, why, and how.
  • Behind the scenes secrets on the screening process.

Emmanuel Gendre, ex-Google recruiter I review every resume personally

Why your software engineer resume gets rejected

SDE resumes get rejected more than ever

You sent 100, maybe 200 applications. A few replies, then silence. Companies don’t tell you why you got rejected, so you’re left guessing while the weeks go by. And if this is your first job search in years, you’ve probably noticed your old resume doesn’t work like it used to.

The 2026 software hiring market is tough

The market for software engineers is employer-driven: more applicants than open roles, for the first time in a long time.

A few years ago, recruiters messaged you every week and you barely needed a resume. Today you have to compete hard for the job you want. If your resume can’t get through the first screen, you never get to show what you can do in the interviews.

Besides losing potential income, this means that your career stalls due to lack of access and opportunities.

In an employer-driven job market, it falls back on you to get “unstuck”. You’ve tried to figure it out on your own, but if you’re like most software engineers, 4 things are holding you back:

01

Software Engineering roles are more competitive

According to Ashby’s 2026 hiring data, applications per hire have tripled since 2021, and the average open role now gets more than 300 applications. You’re competing with 3x more people every time you apply.

It’s not just quantity, it’s also quality: since 2022, tech companies have laid off more than 800,000 employees, which means many of the additional applicants are top talent with big names on their resumes. Ranking in the top 5 for competitive roles is impossible for most.

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02

The screening process is opaque

Rejections come back as automated emails (if they come at all). It’s hard to be objective with your own resume, especially when you don’t know how recruiter screens work. As I always say: resume writing is advertising. You need to know what recruiters want so you can write about it. You can’t improve your resume without a recruiter’s feedback.

Top 5-10
03

The bar is also higher than you think

You might be tempted to follow your friends’ advice to get a resume similar to theirs. This is what everyone does, and they end up with an average resume.

But in a screening process, 100% of average resumes are rejected. Only the top 5-10 resumes get a callback: that’s your actual goal.

04

Online advice is messy and contradictory

One post says one page, the next says two. Keep a summary, drop the summary. Put your GitHub at the top, or leave it off. ChatGPT and Claude repeat the same generic advice, and a new AI resume tool shows up every week. None of it fixes the real problem: technical depth. Resume help should come from those who know recruiting and software.

Hiring a software engineer resume writer vs. doing it alone

AI only helps with syntax

Resume apps and chatbots do make your writing smoother, yes. But if you read it again, carefully, it’s mostly fluff. Nice sentences without substance or intent. Recruiters complain about AI resume slop more than ever.

A software engineer CV has to be deliberate about your stack, your architecture decisions and the numbers that prove they worked. It’s the same as for coding: it’s OK to use AI to execute, but the editorial work and the positioning still require a human.

Fancy templates work against you

Template sites sell you a pretty design. Recruiters don’t care about pretty. They spend 6 to 10 seconds on the first screen (here’s how recruiters screen your resume), and they need a plain, predictable layout to find what they’re looking for fast.

Two columns, icons and skill bars make both the ATS and the recruiter’s job harder, so you get fewer callbacks, not more.

Better content wins, not better design.

A resume service designed by a recruiter, for software engineers

Emmanuel, software engineer resume writer and former Google recruiter, with the TechieCV, Google, Groupon and Persol logos and years
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A resume written by a recruiter, for recruiters

Your resume is a sales document with a very specific audience: tech recruiters. The software engineer resumes that perform best are written by someone who knows exactly how those recruiters work. So who better to write yours than a recruiter? I spent 13 years recruiting, many of them at Google, deciding every day who got an interview. Every writing decision I make comes from that experience.

Engineer resume in Google Docs with the resume writer’s technical comments on Kubernetes and Terraform
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A software engineer resume writer who reads code

Recruiters aren’t the only ones deciding. Engineering managers make the final call, and I worked with hundreds of them at Google. They look for technical depth and proof of impact, so your writer has to be technical enough to write both. I bring 13 years of recruiting, 6 years of self-taught software development (pre-AI), and 6 years of writing resumes for engineers. When you write about a cache layer or a Kafka migration, I know what I’m reading.

Google Doc comment thread between the resume writer and a client, clarifying the technical details of their work
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A technical conversation about your code

Most resume services are generic. They start with a form or a quick meeting, rewrite the wording, and they’re done. This one works differently: it’s a technical conversation.

The whole rewrite happens in a shared Google Doc. I comment on every decision, and you push back, add context or answer my questions. No video calls, no scheduling. You check every claim, so the final resume is 100% accurate, and the full version history stays in the doc. Your voice stays in the resume, and my questions help you remember work you’d forgotten about.

Why use a resume writing service for software engineers

I think there are only 2 real options: learn to write it yourself, or hire a resume writer who specializes in software engineering. Everything in between (generic services, AI tools, resume apps) feels like progress and doesn’t get you more callbacks.

Recommended Software Engineer Resume Writer Ex-Google recruiter
Generic Resume Service Generalist writer
AI Rewriter Language model
Knows what recruiters want
13 yrs, ex-Google
Generic advice
No
Top-company hiring standards
FAANG, scale-ups
Rarely
No
Understands your code
6 yrs writing code
No
Pattern-matching
Writes new content
With your input
Cosmetic edits
Often invented
ATS-friendly format
Always
Usually
Not its job
Turnaround
4 business days
3 to 7 business days
Instant
Cost
$195 to $495
$180 to $800
$0 to $30 / mo

What clients say

422 people have rated the service 4.9 out of 5.

  • bmarx18 Repeat client United States 5

    I’ve utilized Emmanuel’s services several times over the past several years, and I have never been left disappointed. Every job I’ve applied to with Emmanuel’s resumes, I have gotten through the gate keepers. I recommend him to everyone I know! You won’t be disappointed.

  • rkcoding1 United States 5

    Really took my resume above and beyond. He had identified weaknesses from my existing resume and added additional information/structuring I hadn’t thought of. I am noticing that my resume is significantly more ATS friendly as well.

  • ftrifoglio United Kingdom 5

    I had an outstanding experience working with Emmanuel on my CV. He demonstrated deep industry knowledge and genuinely listened to my needs, crafting a personalized approach rather than relying on a cookie-cutter template. Although the process is clearly refined for efficiency and fast delivery, he never compromised on providing a customized experience tailored to my unique background and goals. I highly recommend Emmanuel to anyone looking to create a compelling, professional CV!

  • matthewawilson United States 5

    Emmanuel truly DELIVERED an exceptional resume writing service that’s unmatched! His meticulous attention to detail and professionalism left me speechless. Every interaction was marked by his politeness and incredible fluency in communication, can’t recommend him highly enough!

  • allen_michalski United States 5

    Loved working with Emmanuel. His experience as a recruiter definitely helped shaped how my resume needed to be revised. He understood my mixed hardware and software background and did an effective rewrite of my resume to capitalize on the recruiter search framework.

  • erichsquad United States 5

    Absolutely outstanding! From the initial consultation to the final draft, the entire process was smooth and professional. The writer truly captured my skills and experience in a way that far exceeded my expectations. My new resume is polished, impactful, and has already generated more interview requests. Highly recommend service!

  • trillbichards United States 5

    Emmanuel went above and beyond what I expected. I had used a previous resume writer at a lower cost, and the difference between the two services was night and day. Emmanuel went out of his way to ask for the information required to make a compelling story, and proactively guided me into revealing the most valuable information to put on a resume. He was professional, kind, and clearly knows his stuff.

  • don_fan United States 5

    Emmanuel was kind, knowledgeable, and quick both in his responses and delivery. He was collaborative, thorough, and offered great insights throughout the process. He put my mind at ease by addressing several of my perceived shortcomings, providing simple solutions and workarounds for my complex situation. Definitely worth it. I highly recommend!

  • sam_santana_3 United States 5

    Emmanuel did a great job writing my resume. His drafts had comments asking for more information. I pointed out some revisions to be made and he was able to resolve them in the next delivery. Emmanuel’s LinkedIn Optimization Guide was tailored to me and had the information on how to change it on LinkedIn. The next time I need my resume written I will hire Emanuel again.

  • qbloomfield United States 4.7

    Emmanuel was very quick to send drafts for review and created an exceptional product. He was always quick to mention that he will gladly rework any edits or concerns I had as he wanted to ensure that I was 100% satisfied. I greatly appreciated how thorough he was in expanding my resume and the eloquent way that he stated my work history and accomplishments. I highly recommend working with him on your resume!

Resume Writing Packages for every software engineer

Choose the option that fits your career!

Break Into Tech

Choose this if you are a student or a junior with a limited budget.

Includes:

  • Full resume rewrite, ATS-compatible
  • First draft in 4 business days
  • 1 round of revisions

  • You get a 100% refund if requested within 14 days of draft delivery. No questions asked.

Most popular

Climb the Ladder

The best value for mid-career to seniors applying to competitive roles.

Includes:

  • Full resume rewrite, ATS-compatible

  • You can request additional changes at any time during 30 days. Each revision is generally completed within 1 business day (max. 2, in rare cases).

  • You get custom content written specifically for your LinkedIn profile + a checklist of updates to get more recruiters to reach out. You don’t need to provide your login info.

  • You get a cover letter especially written for your target position. It includes a few placeholders so that you can tailor it to specific companies with minimal effort.

  • You get a spreadsheet with a list of 5,000+ companies with direct access to their career pages, Indeed/Glassdoor job postings, Interview Questions and more. It also includes an Application Tracker, Email Templates, a Job Offer Comparator and Job Search Analytics.

  • You get a 100% refund if requested within 14 days of draft delivery. No questions asked.

Power Move

3 1

Choose this package if you’re applying to more than one kind of role, or if you need your resume fast.

Everything in Climb the Ladder, plus:

  • First draft in 1 business day

  • Once your master resume is final, I adapt it to up to 3 roles you’re targeting (a job title or a job post for each). Each version gets its own Profile Summary, the most relevant bullets first, and the keywords from that role’s job posts.

  • A condensed one-page copy of your master resume, for referrals, career fairs, and recruiters who ask for one page.

  • You get a 100% refund if requested within 14 days of draft delivery. No questions asked.

All prices are USD (they’ll be converted to your local currency and shown before checkout).

How I rewrite software engineer resumes

My tried and tested process to rewrite software engineering CVs.

Step 1 of 3

You send your resume and target role

Upload your resume and tell me the roles you're going after. I send back a short requirements form: target companies, seniority, and anything the resume doesn't already say about what you built. That’s the whole intake.

Takes 5 minutes

The requirements form an engineer fills in before the rewrite starts

Want the long version? Here’s my tech resume writing process, step by step.

A resume writing service for every kind of software engineer

Front-end or embedded, new grad or staff: find your specialty below.

Click any role to see a full resume example.

Front-End & Web

For front-end devs, I write about component architecture, state management, API integration, performance, accessibility and testing. We need to show how you build UIs that hold up at scale. Then we demonstrate your impact with numbers: Core Web Vitals, bundle size, test coverage, conversion rate.

Back-End & APIs

For back-end engineers, I cover API design, data modeling, system architecture, messaging, caching and observability. We need to show the scale your services run at. Then we demonstrate your impact with requests per second, p99 latency, uptime and the outages you prevented.

Full-Stack & Mobile

Full-stack devs own features end to end, so I write about the UI, the API, the database and the deployment. For mobile devs, it’s the UI, offline storage, performance and app store releases. Either way, we need to show your range, and prove it with users, crash-free rates, store ratings and release cadence.

Embedded & Systems

With embedded engineers, I write about firmware, drivers, RTOS, communication protocols and hardware integration. We need to show the constraints you worked under: memory, timing, power. Then we prove your results with boot time, power draw, defect rates and the test rigs you built.

Game Development

When I write for game devs, I cover gameplay systems, engine work, rendering, physics, networking and tools. We need to show the titles you shipped and the systems you owned. Then we prove it with frame time, memory budgets, load times and player numbers.

Senior, Staff & Tech Lead

At senior and staff level, I write about technical direction, architecture, cross-team decisions and mentoring. We need to show your scope: the systems you designed and the teams that built on them. Then we back it up with impact on reliability, delivery speed, cost and the engineers you grew.

Blockchain & Web3

For Web3 devs, I write about smart contracts, security, gas optimization, protocol integrations and testing. We need to show you ship safe code, and demonstrate it with audits, value secured, gas saved and transaction volume. No hype words: recruiters skip those.

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Don’t see your exact stack above? I keep an internal Role Profile for almost every software engineering job, and the roles listed above are only the ones with a public guide.

Whatever your title, the screen works the same way. Upload your resume and I’ll tell you what a recruiter sees in the first 10 seconds.

For your role, I’ll tell you:

  • Whether your target role reads clearly off the top of page one.
  • Which bullets an engineering manager would stop on.
  • The technical detail you left out that should be in there.

Emmanuel Gendre, software engineer resume writer and ex-Google recruiter I review every resume personally

Why software engineers choose me as their resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre, software engineer resume writer and former Google recruiter Ex-Google recruiter
  • 13 yrs recruiting
  • 6 yrs self-taught coding
  • 1,500+ resumes rewritten
  • 4.9 / 5 419 Fiverr reviews

I'm Emmanuel. I started recruiting in Tokyo as a rookie headhunter in 2013, and spent four years on agency-side work before moving in-house with Groupon. I then joined Google in the UK, hiring for both engineering and commercial functions. My total time in recruiting is 13 years.

Around the same time, I taught myself to code. I've been developing web apps for over 6 years and I still ship features every week. I wouldn't dare compare myself to a classically trained engineer, but I'm good enough to understand what you do and write thoughtfully about the technical parts.

Since starting TechieCV, I've rewritten 1,500+ resumes and got clients hired at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and many smaller scale-ups.

More about my background, or find me on LinkedIn if you want to look me up.

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Get a free software engineer resume review

Send your resume in. I open it in Google Docs, add line-by-line comments on every section, and grade it across four rubrics: ATS, profile summary, role coverage, bullet depth. You get the doc back with every comment ready to act on.

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Emmanuel Gendre, software engineer resume writer and ex-Google recruiter I review every resume personally

Frequently Asked Questions

A software engineer resume writer reads your stack like an engineer and writes your bullets like a recruiter. A generic writer fixes your grammar and swaps weak verbs for stronger ones, but leaves the technical depth alone because they can’t read it: the architecture decisions, the scale, the numbers that show your level. I can. Six years of self-taught coding plus 13 years of recruiting means a bullet about a Redis cache, a GraphQL migration or a flaky test suite gets written the way an engineering manager wants to read it.

Most likely, yes. I write for front-end, back-end, full-stack, mobile, embedded, game and Web3 developers, in any language: JavaScript and TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Rust, C#, C++, Swift or Kotlin. If your title isn’t in the list above, send me your resume anyway: I keep an internal Role Profile for almost every software engineering job in tech.

Often, yes. You’re up against candidates with longer track records, so your projects have to do the work that job experience normally does. I write your personal, school and open-source projects to the same depth as work bullets: the stack, the decisions you made, the result. If your budget is tight, Break Into Tech is the package made for that.

Yes. Big tech resumes lean on scale: traffic, number of services, latency budgets, on-call. Scale-up resumes lean on ownership and judgment when the plan isn’t clear. Startup resumes lean on range: you built the API, the front end and the CI pipeline, and the bullets need to show that without looking scattered. I pick the angle based on where you’re applying.

It can reword it. It can’t decide what you should lead with. ChatGPT doesn’t know whether your Kafka work or your React performance work matters more for the role you want, or whether your summary loses the recruiter in the first 6 seconds. Most engineers who hire me have already tried AI. The resume looked polished, and the callbacks still didn’t come. Well written and well positioned aren’t the same thing.

No. The one-page rule is a myth. Recruiters care about how much useful information they find, not the page count. With 8 years of relevant work, 2 pages is fine. With 1 strong role, 1 page is fine. What matters is that every line is worth reading. More on how long a resume should be.

Mine are $195, $295 and $495. Break Into Tech is a full rewrite with 1 round of revisions. Climb the Ladder adds your LinkedIn profile, a cover letter and 30 days of unlimited revisions. Power Move gets you a first draft in 1 business day, plus a master resume with up to 3 targeted versions and a one-page version for networking and referrals. Every package comes with a 100% refund if you ask within 14 days of draft delivery.

Your first draft comes back in 4 business days, or 1 business day on Power Move. Each round of revisions usually takes 1 business day. Most clients sign off on the final version within 5 to 10 business days, depending on how fast they answer my comments in the doc.

Yes, if they’re relevant to the role you want and the code is clean. Two projects written properly beat six listed by name: the stack, what you built, and what it does. Link the repo, because a hiring manager who opens it is already halfway to inviting you to interview.

Ask 3 questions. Can they read your stack, or will you spend the whole time explaining what Kubernetes does? Have they screened resumes at volume, or only written them? And will you see the reasoning behind each change, or just get a finished file? I go through the rest in my guide on how to choose a resume writer.