Engineering · $7 · 5 minutes
An engineer's cover letter
for an engineer reading it.
Most engineering cover letters are keyword soup. Yours can be three paragraphs that actually argue why you'd be useful.
Example output
Dear Northpoint Engineering,
The Senior Engineer role caught me on the part about owning the migration from monolith to services. That's the exact kind of work I've spent the last three years on, at Loomly, where I led the breakout of the billing service from our Rails monolith and the migration of 14M user records without a customer-facing outage.
What I'd bring: Postgres comfort at scale, real production experience with both Rails and Go, and an opinion about when to use neither. I'd want to learn from your infra side — your blog post on multi-region Cockroach last spring was the first time I'd seen anyone write about that tradeoff honestly.
My work is on GitHub at /alxw and I have a portfolio of writing at alex.dev. Happy to walk through any of it.
Best,
Alex Whitfield
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Common questions
- Will it feel template-y?
- No. The opener and the specifics come from your inputs — that's what kills the template feel.
- How long is it?
- 250-350 words. One screen. That's what recruiters actually read.