Dear Hiring Manager,
I am moving to your city in the next two months and I am applying for backend engineer roles there ahead of the move. The timing is settled rather than tentative, so I can give you firm start dates and I am happy to interview remotely until I am on the ground. My most recent work was rebuilding a payments reconciliation service where I added idempotency checks and cut duplicate charge investigations by 41%.
I want to take the relocation question off the table early so we can spend the rest of the conversation on the work. Your team needs API ownership, sound database judgement, queue design, and someone who stays calm during production support, and that is the exact area my strongest examples sit in. I can walk you through the reconciliation rebuild, the constraints I had around live traffic, and the rollback plan I kept ready the whole time.
On that project I worked across Go, TypeScript, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and a handful of AWS services, but the part worth your time is how I made the calls. I chose where to add idempotency keys, defended the migration order with the team, and stayed on the follow-through after release until the duplicate charge tickets dropped off. That is the kind of ownership I would bring from day one, wherever my desk happens to be.
I would welcome a conversation about the systems I would pick up first and how you like new engineers to ramp. Backend interviews reward clear ownership of production systems, so I will keep this short, lead with evidence, and let the reconciliation work carry the case rather than leaning on the relocation story.
Yours sincerely, Alex Morgan