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Software Engineer cover letter example

A short letter for the same fictional software engineer as our resume example.

Adrian Mills
Seattle, USA · adrian.mills@example.com

Hiring Manager
Cedar Payments

Subject: Application for Software Engineer

Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to apply for the Software Engineer role at Cedar Payments. For the past four years I have built backend services for fintech products, and your work on reliable payment settlement is the kind of problem I most enjoy solving.

At Brightwave Technologies I built a reconciliation service that handles 200,000 transactions a day, and I reduced API response time by 45% by adding caching and fixing slow database queries. I also led the move of six services to Kubernetes, which cut our deployment time from two hours to fifteen minutes.

I would welcome the chance to talk about how I can help your engineering team ship dependable features. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours sincerely,
Adrian Mills

This is a made-up example. Write about your own real work and results.

Why this letter works

  • It names the role and the company in the first lines.
  • It gives two or three results with numbers, not a repeat of the resume.
  • It ends politely and briefly, and is easy to read in under a minute.
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