Backend roles are judged on system reliability and scale, not UI polish. Your resume should read like an incident postmortem in reverse — what you built, how it held up under load, and what it replaced.
A dark navy two-column layout built specifically around APIs and systems work, so infrastructure experience reads as the headline, not a footnote.
Terminal-style formatting resonates with infrastructure-heavy backend roles that overlap with platform engineering.
The hard skills, tools, and certifications ATS software scans for on backend developer resumes.
Use relative or percentage improvements ("reduced p99 latency by 40%") instead of absolute numbers if raw figures are sensitive.
List the ones you can speak to in depth — 2-3 with real optimization stories beat 8 with none.