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Jobscan Report

software engineer Skills for 2019

Skills Reports > 2019 software engineer Skills

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.

Top Industries

Computer/Internet
Engineering/Architecture
Manufacturing/Mechanical
Arts/Entertainment/Publishing
Customer Service

Related Job Titles

Front End Software Engineer
Full Stack Developer
Shipper
Deployment Manager
Software Developer

Most Job Openings

Amazon

Microsoft

USfalcon

Apple

Northrop Grumman

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

computer science

technical

Java

programming

Product

software engineering

python

software development

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.

optimizing code

100

technical mentor

objective-c

strategic direction

distributed computing

industry experience

information retrieval

distributed systems

architectures

computer science

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.

github

100

mysql

apache

mongodb

postgresql

technical skills

web application

JIRA

oracle

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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