3 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Solve complex engineering problems and ship production software.
- Make important architectural decisions and implement them through hands-on coding.
- Set standards for clean, observable, maintainable, and adaptable code and systems.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and context sharing.
- Help establish engineering pace and quality standards.
- Improve testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure patterns.
- Own the reliability and performance of a technical domain, including participation in an on-call rotation.
- Develop domain knowledge by spending time on farms.
Requirements
- Extensive experience shipping complex production systems.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure, collaborate with low ego, and rally teams through difficult work.
- Product-oriented engineering mindset focused on customer experience.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to improve team output.
- Experience developing other engineers through collaboration rather than people management.
- Comfort working in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience working in cloud environments; AWS experience is a bonus.
- A software engineering degree or equivalent is preferred but not required.
- Depending on specialization, experience with modern frontend frameworks, React, React Native, REST APIs, distributed systems, event-driven services, relational and non-relational databases, Node.js, Kotlin, Go, AWS, Terraform, observability, CI/CD, and on-call tooling may be relevant.
Benefits
- Daily snacks and drinks.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance partnership.
- 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.
- Relocation to New Zealand is indicated by the job title.
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.