6 months ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Solve difficult engineering problems and ship production-ready software.
- Make important architectural decisions and implement them through code.
- Set standards for clean, observable, maintainable, and easy-to-evolve systems.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and context sharing.
- Help establish Halter’s engineering pace and quality bar.
- Evolve testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure patterns.
- Own the reliability and performance of services, including participation in an on-call rotation.
- Develop domain knowledge by working on farms.
- Depending on focus, build frontend and mobile experiences, backend APIs and distributed systems, full-stack products, or platform tooling and infrastructure.
Requirements
- Several years of experience shipping complex systems in production.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure, work with low ego, and rally teams through challenging work.
- Product-engineering mindset focused on customer experience.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to improve team output.
- Experience developing other engineers through collaboration rather than direct management.
- Comfort working in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
- Experience working in cloud environments; AWS is a bonus.
- A software engineering degree or equivalent is nice to have but not required.
- Frontend or mobile candidates should have strong UX intuition, modern frontend framework experience, and attention to performance on real devices.
- Backend candidates should be comfortable building and scaling APIs and distributed or event-driven systems, with relational and non-relational databases; Node.js, Kotlin, Go, or hardware/IoT integration experience is a bonus.
- Platform candidates should have strong AWS and Terraform experience at scale, including CI/CD, observability, and on-call tooling.
Benefits
- Daily snacks and drinks.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance support.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave, plus other 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 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.