Key Takeaways

  • 75% of U.S. employers use automated applicant tracking systems to screen resumes before a human reviews them (Harvard Business School & Accenture, 2021)
  • The most common ATS failures are missing keywords, incompatible formatting, and incorrect file types
  • ResumeGeni scores your resume across 8 parsing layers — modeled on the same steps enterprise ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Taleo use to evaluate candidates

How ATS Resume Scoring Works

Applicant tracking systems parse your resume into structured data — extracting your name, contact info, work history, skills, and education — then score how well that data matches the job requirements. Many ATS rejections happen because the parser couldn't extract critical fields, not because the candidate wasn't qualified.

LayerWhat It ChecksWhy It Matters
Document extractionFile format, encoding, readabilityCorrupted or image-only PDFs fail immediately
Layout analysisTables, columns, headers, footersMulti-column layouts break field extraction
Section detectionExperience, education, skills headingsNon-standard headings cause sections to be missed
Field mappingName, email, phone, dates, titlesMissing contact info is a common cause of immediate rejection
Keyword matchingJob-specific terms, skills, certificationsKeyword overlap affects recruiter search visibility and ATS scoring
Chronology checkDate ordering, gap detectionReverse-chronological order is expected by most ATS
QuantificationMetrics, numbers, measurable outcomesQuantified achievements help human reviewers and some scoring models
Confidence scoringOverall parse quality and completenessLow-confidence parses get deprioritized in results

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ResumeGeni free?
Yes. ResumeGeni is currently in beta — ATS analysis, scoring, and initial improvement suggestions are free with no signup required. Full guidance and saved reports may require a free account.
What file formats are supported?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, and Apple Pages. PDF and DOCX are recommended for best ATS compatibility.
How is the ATS score calculated?
Your resume is processed through an 8-layer parsing pipeline that extracts structured data the same way enterprise ATS platforms do. The score reflects how completely and accurately your resume can be parsed, plus how well your content matches common ATS ranking criteria.
Can ATS read PDF resumes?
Yes, but not all PDFs are equal. Text-based PDFs parse well. Image-only PDFs (scanned documents) and PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts often fail ATS parsing. Our analyzer will flag these issues.
How do I improve my ATS score?
Focus on three areas: use a clean single-column format, include keywords from the job description naturally in your experience bullets, and ensure all sections (contact, experience, education, skills) use standard headings.

ATS Guides & Resources

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Engineering Manager, Treasury

Lithic · Remote

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments.

Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years.

We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. 

We're a team of 160+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. 

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for our Treasury team to lead Lithic's next phase of growth.

Treasury is Lithic's financial services platform — if a dollar moves through Lithic, it touches Treasury. The team owns all money movement (ACH, wires, book transfers, card settlement), the double-entry ledger, reconciliation across payment networks and banking partners, and the financial controls that ensure correctness across all funds flows. The systems we maintain have high standards of reliability and correctness, because they underpin every dollar on the platform. The team primarily uses Python and AWS.

What You'll Do:

  • Ensure high reliability and correctness for Treasury's core systems — the ledger, payment origination, card settlement, reconciliation, and financial controls
  • Lead delivery of new features and capabilities across money movement, accounting, and reporting surfaces
  • Raise the bar on operational excellence: observability, incident response, on-call readiness, and pragmatic reliability improvements
  • Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way
  • Partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements early and keep engineering time focused on the highest-impact work
  • Lead efforts to improve systems, processes, and documentation so new team members can ramp quickly
  • Participate in and help evolve the team's on-call rotation

What You Bring

  • Experience managing and growing engineers, including coaching, feedback, and hiring
  • Strong technical judgment and system design skills, especially for high-reliability systems with strict correctness requirements
  • Comfort staying close to the work — this is a player-coach role where the manager can unblock, review designs, and occasionally contribute hands-on when needed
  • Experience shipping and operating production services, with a bias toward measurable reliability and pragmatic iteration
  • Experience with or interest in learning financial infrastructure — payment rails, ledger systems, reconciliation, or similar domains
  • Experience with Python and AWS (or closely related stacks), and an ability to ramp quickly where the stack is unfamiliar
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills and an ability to keep teams aligned under time pressure
  • Growth mindset and continuous desire to learn and improve
  • An interest in fintech and payments is preferred

The annual US salary range for this role is $169,000 - $265,000 plus equity. This salary range is inclusive of several career levels at Lithic and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate's experience and qualifications.

This is a remote position. However, candidates must be located in the United States, Canada, Netherlands, Poland, or Czech Republic. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance.

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Benefits for Full-Time US Employees:

  • Unlimited PTO
  • 12-weeks fully paid parental leave
  • 4-Week Fully Paid Sabbatical (earned at your 5-year anniversary)
  • Work From Anywhere: work from anywhere in the world 4-weeks each year
  • 3% cashback on card purchases with your complimentary Privacy.com employee account
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA Contribution Match
  • 401(k) match
  • Voluntary Life Insurance and STD/LTD

NYC-based employees work from our SoHo office three days a week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are our core days, and you'll choose a third day that works for your schedule and team needs.

In-office employees receive: 

  • Commuter benefit
  • Catered lunch every Tuesday and Thursday