Engineering Manager Cover Letter Example

Releases at Isvind Payments now reach customers twice a week instead of every second week, because I replaced a ten-day manual checklist with automated checks and a single approval step. Halving the time from code complete to release, from ten days to five, is the result I would point to first in applying to be Engineering Manager at Skargard Commerce Platform.

I lead three teams and 14 engineers building the merchant payments platform, a group I grew from five. Hiring is where I have put the most design work: I built a structured interview loop with a shared scoring guide, and offer acceptance rose from 55% to 78% in two years. New starters follow a structured first 90 days plan, about four of them a year. For incidents, a rotating on-call and written runbooks for the ten most common alerts cut response time from 50 to 20 minutes and night-time pages by 40%, with each engineer on call one week in eight.

Skargard splitting its main payments service before a move into Germany is the combination that drew me, because it is where I have the most relevant experience. As a tech lead I guided a team of six through moving a monolith to services over two years with no customer downtime, and our platform has handled peak holiday payment traffic without an outage three years running. Growing engineers matters to me as much as shipping: four people have been promoted in three years, each into wider scope, and two developers I mentored became team leads. With 60 engineers in six teams, your line on hiring, onboarding and growing engineers is where I would expect to spend most of my time.

Sketching how I would spend the first 90 days with your teams would take twenty minutes of an interview, and I would rather spend the rest hearing which of your six teams finds it hardest to ship today.