Motivation Letter Backend Developer

A good motivation letter for Backend Developer connects a concrete personal experience with what the position actually requires - not a summary of the CV. Structure: salutation, a concrete reference to the position or company, a substantiated example from your own experience, an honest closing.

Example

Dear Ms. Schneider For four years I have worked on the core system of a Swiss payment service provider - Java, Spring Boot, around 300 requests per second at peak times. A large part of the codebase is older than my time at the company, and I have learned that the hardest skill in backend work is not writing new services, but understanding existing ones. Last year I extracted the interest calculation from the monolith and deployed it as its own service, with a transition period during which both paths ran in parallel and results were compared. The switch happened without any downtime. Your posting describes a similar starting point. This is exactly the kind of work I enjoy - careful, traceable, without major rebuilds. Kind regards

Common Mistakes

• No indication of load and user numbers for the systems supported
• Security topics are missing, even though they are central to backend work
• Legacy experience is left unmentioned, even though many Swiss positions specifically look for it
• Only the language is named, not the architecture worked in