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Software Engineer Skills for 2023

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What does a software engineer do?

Software Engineers use engineering principles and technical programming to build software, manage databases, and run networks.

They are critical to information technology businesses and may either handle a range of responsibilities (full stack engineer) or work within a specialized discipline such as front-end, back-end, data science, or gaming, among many others.

 

software engineer Skills Summary

Successful Software Engineers are knowledgeable across a breadth of hard skills comprised of programming languages and specific technologies in addition to soft skills related to innovation, collaboration, and attention to detail.

The best Software Engineers have skills like engineering, design, computer science, programming, java, back end, developer tools, distributed computing, and Kafka on their LinkedIn profiles and resumes. Full report below.

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Hard Skills

Hard skills are typically learned through education or work experience, such as proficiency with specific tools,
software or specialized processes.

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Top software engineer Skills Overall

The most common hard skills found across software engineer job descriptions.

engineering
100
design
94
computer science
91
technical
76
Java
75
programming
70
Product
68
software engineering
61
python
60
software development
60

High Impact

Hard to Find software engineer Skills

Hard skills frequently found in the job descriptions that are less likely to
appear in software engineer LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

compilers
100
technical mentor
90
optimizing code
89
objective-c
86
strategic direction
83
distributed computing
79
distributed systems
68
industry experience
66
information retrieval
65
agile development
60

Low Impact

Easy to Find software engineer Skills

Hard skills that are most likely to appear in both the job descriptions and
LinkedIn profiles or resumes.

C
100
github
87
mysql
77
postgresql
67
apache
67
mongodb
62
technical skills
60
web application
59
JIRA
52
XML
50

Soft Skills

Soft skills are harder-to-measure interpersonal “people” skills important for leadership or collaborative
environments.

innovative
passion
vision
collaborative
hands on
high quality

About this report

Jobscan helps job seekers tailor their resumes and LinkedIn profiles for each job opportunity through personalized skill and keyword matching, among other checks.

Our data science team analyzed over 100,000 unique Jobscan user resumes in addition to 8 million job postings from last year to identify the most common keywords and highest impact skills for Software Engineers.

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