LaTeX cover letter template

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\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1.1in,right=1.1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% Blank line between paragraphs instead of an indent, the usual letter look.
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

% Your own address block. Change flushright to flushleft to move it over.
\begin{flushright}
  Your Name\\
  123 Example Street\\
  City, Country\\
  \href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}\\
  +1 555 0100
\end{flushright}

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\noindent City, Country, \today

\bigskip
% Who the letter goes to. Find a real name if you can.
\noindent Ms.\ Hiring Manager\\
Company Name\\
456 Sample Avenue\\
City, Country

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\noindent\textbf{Subject: Application for the Senior Software Engineer position}

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\noindent Dear Ms.\ Hiring Manager,

I am applying for the Senior Software Engineer position you advertised on your
careers page in March. I have spent the past seven years building and running
payment and reporting systems, and the part of the job description about
replacing a batch pipeline with something the support team can trust is work I
have done twice.

At Company Name I led the move of our billing service to an event driven
design, which cut end of month processing from six hours to twenty minutes and
removed the manual reruns that used to eat the first Monday of every month.
Before that I built the public REST API that now serves 3,000 requests per
second, and I wrote the migration tooling that moved 40 TB of customer records
with no downtime. I work in Go and Python day to day, and I am comfortable
owning a service from the schema to the on call rotation.

What draws me to Company Name is that you publish your incident reports. The
one about the March cache stampede read like a team that fixes causes instead
of symptoms, and that is the kind of engineering culture I want to work in. I
would also like to keep doing the mentoring side of my current role, and your
posting says the team is growing by six people this year.

My resume is attached. I can start eight weeks after an offer, and I am happy
to walk through any of the projects above in more detail. Thank you for your
time.

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\noindent Sincerely,

\vspace{1.1cm}
\noindent Your Name

\end{document}