The AI career coach
built for engineers.
From ATS-optimized resumes for Google, Meta, and Stripe to technical interview prep and staff-level coaching — Zari understands the specific signals that matter in engineering careers.
What Zari does for software engineers
Tech-role resume optimization
Zari knows the difference between backend, frontend, ML, and platform engineering keywords. Your resume is analyzed against the specific role and level — SWE II, Senior, Staff, Principal.
Behavioral interview coaching
The leadership principles questions that trips up many engineers — conflict, scope, cross-functional influence. Zari drills these with STAR scoring until your answers demonstrate the leadership signal interviewers need to see.
System design framing
How to structure and communicate system design decisions in an interview. Scope, trade-offs, scalability — the narrative that separates senior engineers from staff-level candidates.
Engineer salary negotiation
Equity, base, signing bonus, and total comp — Zari gives you market data for your level and location and runs the negotiation with you until it doesn't feel awkward.
Staff-level coaching
The specific signals that get engineers promoted to Staff: scope of influence, technical strategy, cross-organizational impact. Zari identifies where your narrative is still IC-level and helps you reframe it.
LinkedIn for engineers
Your LinkedIn headline and About rebuilt for recruiter search. Technical specialties, seniority signal, and openness — optimized for the searches that lead to the right DMs.
Frequently asked questions
How does Zari help software engineers with their resume?
Zari optimizes software engineer resumes for ATS systems used by tech companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Stripe. It analyzes keyword coverage against the specific role (backend, frontend, full-stack, ML, data), scores every bullet for impact and metric density, and rewrites them for the target level — from SWE to Staff.
Does Zari help with technical interview preparation for software engineers?
Yes. Zari covers behavioral interview questions (the 'leadership principles' and 'tell me about a time' questions that trip up many engineers), system design framing, and technical deep-dive responses. It scores your answers using STAR methodology and coaches you to demonstrate scope, scale, and impact.
Can Zari help software engineers negotiate their compensation?
Yes. Zari provides market compensation data for engineering roles by level and location, generates specific counter-offer language, and runs negotiation simulations with the objections you're likely to face — including equity and total comp conversations.