Lead Engineer - Relocate to New Zealand

At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes,...

We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.

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We're looking for Lead Engineers who perform at the top of the craft. You'll take on the hardest problems, make the calls that matter on the gnarliest design questions, and ship work that the rest of the team learns from. Engineers around you get better because they're working alongside you. We don't mind whether your strengths sit on the frontend, backend, full stack, or on the platform side that gives every other engineer leverage. What matters is that you ship robust, thoughtful work at a level few others can match, and use AI tools well.
Take on the hardest problems and ship the work that proves them out.
Make the architectural calls that matter, then back them up by writing the code.
Set the standard for thoughtful engineering: clean, observable, easy-to-evolve code and systems.
Support and mentor other engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and generous context sharing.
Help set the pace and quality bar for engineering at Halter.
Help evolve our testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure patterns.
Own the reliability and performance of your domain, especially when things get tricky. Every team owns its services end-to-end, with an on-call rotation.
Get out on farm. Deep domain knowledge matters, and you'll be expected to develop it.
 
Have spent years shipping complex systems in production and have the experience (and scars) to show for it.
Stay calm under pressure, have a low ego, and can rally a team through tough or complex work.
Think like a product engineer: you care about the customer experience, not just clean code.
Know how to use AI tools well to lift team output and focus on the harder stuff.
Have grown other engineers by working alongside them, not by managing them.
Are comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where adaptability beats perfection.
Have worked in cloud environments. AWS is a bonus.
A degree in software engineering (or equivalent) is nice to have, but not essential.
 

Frontend / Mobile: strong UX intuition, modern frontend frameworks (React, React Native a bonus), an eye for performance and polish on real devices.
Backend: building and scaling REST APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven services. Comfort with both relational and non-relational databases. Node.js, Kotlin, Go, or systems that integrate with hardware/IoT a bonus.
Full stack: all of the above, end to end, across web, mobile, and the services that power them.
Platform: you love building tooling that makes the whole company move faster, including the AI tooling that's reshaping how engineers work. Strong AWS and Terraform at scale, with experience across CI/CD, observability, and on-call tooling.