6 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver end-to-end features and systems across farmer-facing surfaces, services, and infrastructure.
- Make architectural decisions and implement the resulting production code.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams to ship high-impact features quickly.
- Support and mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and context sharing.
- Contribute to system reliability and performance and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Develop deep domain knowledge by spending time on farms.
- Build frontend, mobile, backend, full-stack, or platform systems depending on team placement.
Requirements
- Experience designing and delivering complex production systems.
- A strong product engineering mindset focused on customer experience.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to improve team output.
- Experience supporting and mentoring other engineers.
- Comfort working in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience working in cloud environments; AWS experience is a bonus.
- For frontend or mobile work, strong UX intuition and experience with modern frontend frameworks are desired.
- For backend work, experience with REST APIs, distributed systems, event-driven services, relational and non-relational databases, or hardware and IoT integrations is desired.
- For platform work, experience with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and on-call tooling is desired.
- A degree in software engineering or equivalent is nice to have but not essential.
Benefits
- Daily snacks and drinks.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance support.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks for secondary caregivers, plus additional parental benefits.
- Annual $1,000 self-development budget.
- Wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- Salary, benefits, and employee stock ownership plan.
- Office-first work arrangement with daily office attendance as the default and 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.