4 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.
