6 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver end-to-end features and systems spanning farmer-facing applications, services, and infrastructure.
- Make architectural decisions and implement the resulting systems in code.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams to ship high-impact features.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing with other engineers.
- Contribute to system reliability and performance and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Develop deep domain knowledge by spending time on farms.
- Depending on the engineering area, build frontend or mobile experiences, backend APIs and services, full-stack features, or platform tooling and infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience designing and delivering complex production systems.
- A product-oriented mindset focused on customer experience as well as code quality.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to improve team output.
- Experience supporting and collaborating with other engineers.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Experience working in cloud environments; AWS experience is a bonus.
- A software engineering degree is nice to have but not essential.
- Depending on the specialization, experience with React or React Native, backend and distributed systems, relational and non-relational databases, Node.js, Kotlin, Go, AWS, or Terraform may be relevant.
Benefits
- Daily snacks and drinks are provided.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance supports employee well-being.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave is provided for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers, along with additional parental benefits.
- An annual $1,000 self-development budget is provided.
- Wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave are offered.
- The remuneration package includes salary, benefits, and an employee stock ownership plan.
- The role follows an office-first approach, with working from the office every day as the default while allowing flexibility when needed.
About Halter
Halter builds a livestock management system combining solar-powered smart collars, farm sensors, and software to virtually fence, move, and monitor herds. It sells hardware with a subscription platform to dairy and grazing farmers, letting them remotely shift cattle and track health and behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the privately held company is backed by investors including DCVC and Blackbird.