October 17, 2026
Hiring Team
Fernhill
Dear Hiring Team,
I'd like to be considered for the Staff Software Engineer role on Fernhill's payments platform. The event-driven work your post describes is the work I do today.
At Tessellate Pay I led the move of payment processing to an event-driven service that now handles 3 million transactions a day1. I also cut p95 API latency from 480 ms to 120 ms2 by redesigning the caching layer.
Your post asks for someone who can keep latency low at peak3 and help grow a team of eight. At Tessellate I mentored five engineers4, and two were promoted within a year.
I've spent nine years building payment and data systems with Go, TypeScript, Kafka, PostgreSQL and AWS. I'd be glad to talk about where Fernhill's platform goes next.
Sincerely,
Emma Clarke