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Show that you own features end to end, from database to UI. The strongest full stack resumes pair the stack you shipped with the latency, conversion and uptime numbers you moved.

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Ellis Vandermolen

Senior Full Stack Developer | React & Node.js | Cut page-load time 60% at scale

  • Austin, TX
  • ellis.vandermolen@example.com
  • +1 (737) 555-0168
  • linkedin.com/in/your-name

Summary

Full stack developer with eight years shipping React and Node.js products from database schema to production UI. Owns features end to end for an app serving 850,000 monthly users, with a focus on performance, clean APIs and reliable deploys.

Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer

May 2021 – Present

Brightledger · Austin, TX

  • Architected a Next.js and Node.js rewrite of the billing dashboard, cutting median page-load time from 3.4s to 1.3s and lifting trial-to-paid conversion 18%.
  • Built a GraphQL API layer over PostgreSQL serving 12M requests per day, reducing client-side data fetches 40% and p95 latency from 480ms to 110ms.
  • Led adoption of CI/CD with automated tests across 6 services, raising deploy frequency from weekly to 25+ per week with zero rollback incidents in a year.

Full Stack Developer

Jul 2018 – Apr 2021

Cedarwave Labs · Austin, TX

  • Shipped 35+ features across a React and Express stack for a SaaS product that grew from 90,000 to 410,000 monthly active users.
  • Integrated Stripe billing and a webhook pipeline that processed $14M in annual payments with a sub-0.1% failure rate.
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and added Redis caching, improving dashboard throughput 3x at the same instance count.

Junior Web Developer

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018

Northgate Interactive · San Antonio, TX

  • Developed responsive React front ends and Node.js REST APIs for 18 client projects, delivering 100% on schedule.
  • Automated the deployment pipeline with Docker and GitHub Actions, cutting release time from 40 minutes to 6 minutes.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2012 – 2016

University of Texas at Austin

Skills

Core competencies

  • React
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript

Technical

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • GraphQL
  • AWS
  • Docker

Soft Skills

  • Code Review
  • Technical Mentoring
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Pragmatic Decision-Making

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate · Amazon Web Services, 2021
  • MongoDB Associate Developer · MongoDB, 2020

Languages

  • English · Native
  • Spanish · Professional working proficiency

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Full Stack Developer resume summary examples

Pick the one closest to your level and replace the specifics with your own.

  • Entry level

    Full stack developer with a computer science degree and one year of experience building features in React, Node.js and PostgreSQL. Shipped a booking module used by 1,200 customers and wrote the API tests that cut regression bugs by a third. Seeking a product team where I can keep learning across the whole stack.

  • Mid level

    Full stack developer with five years building SaaS products in TypeScript, React, Node.js and PostgreSQL. Delivered a billing workflow end to end that reduced failed payments by 18 percent, and tuned slow queries from seconds to milliseconds. Comfortable on AWS, careful with tests and good at working with product managers.

  • Senior

    Senior full stack engineer with nine years leading product features from design to production. Sets API and data model standards for a team of seven, reduced p95 latency by 45 percent and owns on-call quality. Mentors engineers, reviews architecture and keeps delivery pragmatic, trading polish for impact when it matters.

Common mistakes on a full stack developer resume

  • Claiming equal depth in every layer

    Fix: A long list of front-end, back-end and cloud tools invites a skeptical read. Show your strongest layer first, then give one concrete example in each other layer so the breadth looks earned.

  • Describing features without end-to-end ownership

    Fix: The value of a full stack engineer is owning a slice from schema to screen. Write bullets that cover the database change, the API and the interface in one story, with the outcome at the end.

  • Leaving out data and API design

    Fix: Many resumes stop at UI and endpoints. Mention schema design, indexing, query tuning, pagination or caching with latency numbers, which prove you understand what happens behind the request.

  • Skipping testing and deployment

    Fix: Add the unit and integration tests you wrote, the CI pipeline you maintained and the hosting you used. Teams hiring generalists want engineers who can ship and support what they build.

What should a full stack developer resume include?

A full stack developer resume should open with a two or three line summary of your focus, then show each role as results rather than duties. Name the skills the posting asks for, such as React, TypeScript and Next.js. Start bullets with verbs like Built, Shipped and Architected, and give each one a number where you honestly have one. If you hold a credential such as AWS Certified Developer – Associate, list it in its own section.

Front end

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • State management
  • Responsive design
  • Accessibility

Back end and APIs

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Python
  • Django
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Microservices
  • Authentication

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Query optimization
  • Schema design
  • Database migrations

Cloud and delivery

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes
  • Vercel
  • Terraform

Testing and process

  • Jest
  • Playwright
  • Integration testing
  • Agile
  • Code review
  • Feature flags
  • Monitoring

Action verbs

  • Built
  • Shipped
  • Architected
  • Integrated
  • Optimized
  • Automated

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • MongoDB Associate Developer

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Full Stack Developer resume bullet examples

The numbers are illustrative. Keep the structure (verb, action, measurable result) and use figures you can back up.

  • Delivered a subscription billing workflow across React, Node.js and PostgreSQL, reducing failed payments by 18 percent through retry logic and clearer error states.
  • Cut p95 API latency from 820 to 310 milliseconds by adding indexes, caching hot reads in Redis and trimming payloads.
  • Designed a role-based permissions model and matching admin interface that let customer support resolve account issues without engineering help.
  • Built a real-time notification feature with WebSockets that lifted daily active use by 11 percent.
  • Moved deployments to Docker and GitHub Actions, shortening release time from 50 minutes to 12 and enabling daily deploys.
  • Wrote integration tests covering the order pipeline, raising coverage from 35 to 78 percent and catching seven bugs before release.
  • Migrated a MongoDB reporting store to PostgreSQL with zero downtime, simplifying queries and cutting hosting cost by about 20 percent.
  • Implemented OAuth login and session handling for web and mobile clients, lowering support tickets about sign-in by 40 percent.
  • Prototyped and shipped an internal import tool in two weeks that saved the operations team roughly 15 hours a week.
  • Led the refactor of a monolithic API into three services, which let two teams deploy independently and halved merge conflicts.

Salary (official data)

Official pay statistics for the occupation that matches this role, copied exactly as each statistics office publishes them.

  • United States

    Median gross annual pay: $135,980 a year · Median gross hourly pay: $65.38 an hour

    Middle half of earners: $105,210 to $171,980 · 10th to 90th percentile: $82,460 to $214,670

    Official occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252)

    Gross wages of employees in all industries, before deductions; excludes the self-employed.

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Public domain.

  • United Kingdom

    Median gross annual pay: £59,863 a year

    Middle half of earners: £43,509 to £82,149 · 10th to 90th percentile: £33,352 to £114,051

    Official occupation: Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2020 2134)

    Gross annual pay of full-time employee jobs (employees on adult rates in the same job for more than a year).

    Provisional figures: the publisher revises them a year later.

    Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, tax year to 5 April 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Canada

    Median gross hourly pay: CA$ 50.48 an hour · Median gross weekly pay: CA$ 1,923 a week

    Official occupation group: Professional occupations in applied sciences (except engineering) (NOC 2021 212)

    Usual gross wages of full-time employees (30 hours or more a week) at their main job, including tips, commissions and bonuses.

    Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual, 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada Open Licence). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

  • Ireland

    Mean gross annual pay of the whole major group: €70,522 a year

    Major occupation group: Professionals (ISCO-08 2)

    Mean gross annual earnings, including bonuses, for the whole major occupation group in enterprises with 10 or more employees. Eurostat publishes no median by occupation.

    Source: Eurostat, Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_28), 2022, CC BY 4.0. Ruubu matched the role to an ISCO-08 major group; Eurostat is not responsible for this use of its data.

Figures cover everyone in the official occupation, at every experience level. They are not a job offer, a forecast or a Ruubu estimate. Ruubu matches each role to the closest official occupation. An official occupation can include related jobs.

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Full Stack Developer resume questions

Should I list both front-end and back-end skills, or specialize?

List both, but group them so the breadth is obvious at a glance. Pair a primary front-end framework like React with a back-end runtime, a database and a cloud provider you have actually shipped with.

How do I quantify full stack work on a resume?

Use page-load and API latency reductions, requests served, conversion lift from features you owned, deploy frequency and uptime. Tie each bullet to a metric on the layer you touched.

Do certifications matter for a full stack developer?

They help past keyword screens and signal cloud fluency, especially an AWS or Azure developer cert. Shipped products with real users still carry more weight than any certificate.

Is full stack developer a good title for a resume if I lean toward back end?

Yes, if your work genuinely spans both. Keep the title that matches your employer's, then use the headline and skills order to show your lean. Backend-heavy candidates should still include at least one front-end example to back up the claim.

Which projects help a full stack resume stand out?

Production features with real users beat tutorials. Describe the data model, the API and the interface, plus what you measured afterward. A side project works if it is deployed, has authentication and tests, and you can talk about the tradeoffs you made.

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