Full Stack Engineer résumé: what employers are asking for right now
We read 178 open full stack engineer postings on employers' own job boards, at companies including OpenAI, Affirm and Databricks. Of the 112 whose requirements we have read, the skills asked for most are React (74%), TypeScript (74%) and Python (54%) — so those belong near the top of a full stack engineer résumé, in the words the posting uses. The median posting asks for 5+ years of experience.
From 178 open postings on employers’ own job boards, as of .
Skills full stack engineer postings ask for
| Skill | Share of postings | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| React | 74% | |
| TypeScript | 74% | |
| Python | 54% | |
| JavaScript | 53% | |
| Node.js | 39% | |
| SQL | 29% | |
| API Design | 25% | |
| System Design | 25% | |
| Git | 24% | |
| CSS | 20% | |
| AWS | 17% | |
| Backend Development | 15% | |
| HTML | 15% | |
| Frontend Development | 14% | |
| Kotlin | 13% |
Share of the 112 postings whose requirements we have read.
A skills section built from those postings
List only what you can talk about in an interview, and use the posting’s own words for it — a screener searching for “React” will not match a synonym. Ordered by how often employers ask:
Skills
React · TypeScript · Python · JavaScript · Node.js
SQL · API Design · System Design · Git · CSS · AWS · Backend Development · HTML
Frontend Development · Kotlin
- Line 1: asked for by a third or more of postings.
- Line 2: often asked for.
- Line 3: sometimes asked for.
Sample full stack engineer résumé
An illustrative example, not a real person: the employers and results are made up. The skills are the ones the postings above ask for, so it shows how those requirements read on a page.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Senior Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years building React and TypeScript products backed by Python and Node.js services. Experience spans API Design, System Design, SQL, and AWS across customer-facing features, internal tools, and production operations.
Experience
Senior Full Stack Engineer · Series B B2B software company
2021 – present
- Built and shipped React and TypeScript workflows for a multi-tenant dashboard, reducing task completion time by 28% across 12,000 weekly active users.
- Designed API Design standards for Python and Node.js services, improving integration consistency and cutting frontend handoff defects by 34%.
- Led System Design work for a new event pipeline on AWS, supporting 4x traffic growth without customer-visible downtime.
- Introduced SQL performance fixes and cache updates that reduced median query latency from 480 ms to 140 ms on high-usage reports.
Full Stack Engineer · Regional marketplace platform
2018 – 2021
- Delivered frontend features in React, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML for buyer and seller tools used across web and mobile web.
- Expanded Backend Development in Python and Node.js, adding account, search, and notification endpoints used by 6 product teams.
- Partnered on AWS infrastructure and Git-based release workflows, shortening deploy windows from hours to under 20 minutes.
- Supported Kotlin service work for transaction processing and resolved production issues during on-call rotations with clear postmortems.
Skills
React · TypeScript · Python · JavaScript · Node.js · SQL · API Design · System Design · Git · CSS · AWS · Backend Development · HTML · Frontend Development · Kotlin
More full stack engineer bullet points to adapt
- Built reusable React and TypeScript components that standardized navigation, forms, and validation across multiple product surfaces.
- Refactored Node.js and Python services to reduce duplicate logic, improve test coverage, and simplify future feature work.
- Designed SQL-backed reporting workflows that exposed operational metrics to product and support teams in near real time.
- Implemented AWS deployment updates that improved release reliability and reduced manual steps in the delivery process.
- Shipped frontend performance improvements that reduced page load time and improved interaction speed on complex screens.
- Defined API contracts and versioning practices that kept dependent services stable during rapid product iteration.
- Partnered with backend and frontend peers to break down large features into incremental releases with measurable milestones.
- Added Kotlin service changes for a high-volume workflow and verified behavior with integration tests before rollout.
- Improved Git branching and review practices to lower merge conflicts and speed up code review turnaround.
- Supported on-call incident response by tracing failures across React, API, and SQL layers and restoring service quickly.
What sets an application apart
Listed as a plus rather than a requirement: Kubernetes (17%), Docker (8%), Machine Learning (8%), Distributed Systems (7%), Go (7%), AWS (6%), CI/CD (6%) and Observability (6%). Worth naming if you have it, and never worth claiming if you do not.
Level, location and pay
- Most are senior roles (53% of postings that state a level).
- 46% are listed as remote.
- Listed mainly in United States, Canada and United Kingdom.
- US postings that publish a yearly salary: median $285k, middle half $236k–$358k (from 15 postings).