Backend Developer Resume Template (2026)

A backend developer resume example focused on APIs, system design, databases, scalable architecture, and production service ownership.

Summary

Backend engineer with 6 years of experience building high-throughput APIs, designing schemas, and solving distributed systems problems. Have owned backend systems serving up to 100M monthly active users.

Experience
Twitch / Senior Backend Engineer / Remote
Mar 2021–Present
  • Designed and built the Clips storage microservice in Go, handling 3M clip creates/day with <50ms p95 write latency
  • Led the PostgreSQL → Aurora migration for the follows service (1.2B rows), achieving zero downtime with dual-write strategy
  • Implemented CQRS pattern for the channel recommendations service, scaling read throughput 10× without hardware changes
  • Mentored 4 engineers on database query optimisation, reducing slow query count from 140/day to 8/day
Zendesk / Backend Engineer / San Francisco, CA
Jun 2019–Feb 2021
  • Built ticket search API (Elasticsearch + Node.js) replacing a full-table scan, reducing query time from 8s to 120ms
  • Designed multi-tenant data isolation layer for a new enterprise feature, used by 200 enterprise accounts
  • Added Redis caching to the high-frequency user presence API, reducing database load by 78%
HubSpot / Software Engineer / Boston, MA
Jul 2018–May 2019
  • Built REST APIs for the CRM contacts module using Java Spring Boot and MySQL
  • Wrote 300+ unit and integration tests, improving code coverage from 42% to 78%
Skills
Languages & Frameworks: Node.js, Go, Python, Java, Spring Boot, FastAPI
Databases & Caching: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, SQL
Architecture & Cloud: System Design, Microservices, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, REST APIs
Education
Northeastern University / B.S., Computer Science
Sep 2014–May 2018

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