I was thrilled to locate the Senior Front End Engineer position for the Marketing team at GitHub. I could explain how much I admire the enterprise since the first commit happened in 2007. The impact and value that GitHub brings to the Engineering community day by day, making collaboration so easy and simple with an open-source mentality that brings pride to our career. However, that’s probably what the other applicants will explain as well. So I would like to explain why can I be the best fit to join your amazing team.
In your job offer, it says you are looking for a visually minded front-end engineer with expertise in the design and development process, that can work alongside with other engineers and your Design team. I consider myself a perfect fit for this role since I started developing back in 2007, so I grow up with GitHub. I learned all that I know in close collaboration with product designers, such a close collaboration that I’m married with a UX Designer, and we’ve been together for 13 years! So when we talk about “Pixel Perfect” I really DO KNOW what does this means, and how important a pixel can be. In 2011 I decided to take a short detour and study a Degree in Psychology. This experience was crucial for me to understand how humans behave in a group, what helps a team to succeed, and how to communicate better. This helped me to understand better all the business requirements that sometimes Devs are not so happy about, and how to communicate successfully with Stakeholders.
As a FrontEnd Engineer in MediaMarktSaturn, I successfully managed to dynamize and bring the new Personalized experience life, and bring a fresh Mediterranean “Talk less, do more” perspective in the German way of working that helped to speed up the Tech Transformation that the company is experiencing.
Working in the Marketing team of GitHub would be an honor for me. I really enjoy bringing components life and working closely with the Desing Team to create a valuable Design System that can be scalable, easily maintained and to be proud of.
You can check out my proposal on how to improve the Github experience.
Would you have time for a brief chat in the next few days? I would love to talk about how I can help to achieve these goals, creating a positive impact and being part of the creative culture as it’s GitHub.
Sincerely, Rubèn Suet.