Free ATS Resume Checker for Software Engineer
Software engineering roles attract hundreds of applicants per posting, and almost every tech company above 50 employees uses an ATS to filter before a recruiter looks at anything. The challenge for engineers is that job descriptions freely mix technologies — React, TypeScript, Node, AWS — but your CV may use slightly different phrasing or list tools under a generic 'Tech Stack' heading the ATS doesn't recognise as a skills section. Multi-column resume templates popular in the dev community also tend to interleave text during parsing, producing garbage output like 'React · Node.js 2019–2022 AWS' with no structure. AdaptMyCV's free ATS checker parses your PDF or DOCX, extracts the tech keywords the ATS would score, and shows exactly which ones are missing so you can close the gap honestly before you apply.
5 ATS keywords Software Engineer resumes must cover
These are the terms that appear most frequently in Software Engineer job descriptions and carry the most weight in ATS scoring. If any are missing from your resume, you're losing points — even against less experienced candidates who list them explicitly.
- 1CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- 2Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- 3RESTful API design
- 4Agile / Scrum methodology
- 5Unit testing and TDD (Jest, pytest)
How to fix your Software Engineer resume for ATS
- Use a single-column layout. Multi-column templates popular for Software Engineer roles often interleave text during ATS parsing, producing garbled output that scores near zero on structure checks.
- Mirror the JD's phrasing exactly. If the posting says “CI/CD”, that exact string needs to appear in your resume — not a synonym, not a broader category.
- Use standard section headers. “Experience”, “Skills”, “Education” — not creative variants. Unusual headers break field extraction in most ATSes.
- Put contact info in the body, not only the header. Some parsers skip the document header/footer region entirely.
- Run the free ATS checker before submitting. It takes under a minute and shows your exact score, keyword gaps, and the top fixes ranked by score-point impact.
Or go further — adapt to a specific JD
The free ATS checker scores your resume and surfaces keyword gaps. The full AI Adapt flow goes further: it rewrites the relevant bullets to include the missing keywords honestly — only adding terms you can defensibly claim based on your existing experience — and re-renders your CV in a clean, ATS-friendly template. 10 coins (~$2), with 10 free coins on signup.
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