5 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of core React Native features, including native modules and bridges.
- Collaborate with design and product to make product trade-offs and ship high-impact features.
- Use AI tools such as Claude and Cursor to improve development quality and speed while maintaining readable, tested code.
- Improve mobile application performance across the Halter app.
- Build resilient offline-first flows and graceful error handling for field conditions.
- Evolve mobile design systems and UI patterns.
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, pairing, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Deep React Native expertise and strong opinions on mobile architecture, including navigation, state, and module boundaries.
- Product-focused engineering mindset with experience designing stable native bridges and knowing when to use native development.
- Experience shipping complex React Native applications in cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of mobile performance, accessibility, testing, and maintainability.
- Ability to work effectively in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience with CodePush, large-scale App Store releases, design systems, and mentoring mobile engineers is preferred.
- A degree is a bonus but is not required.
Benefits
- Delicious snacks and drinks are provided.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance supports employee well-being.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave is offered for primary caregivers, plus four weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and other 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.
Tech Stack
Categories
Mobile
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.