About the role
At Halter, we work at the interface where software meets firmware meets hardware underpinned by deep data to transform and improve what our customers (farmers) have been doing for centuries. This space is challenging and intellectually stimulating. We're just scratching the surface.
We are looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer who is hungry to make an impact on the world; people from all backgrounds who can continue to make our team greater than the sum of its parts. As a Principal Frontend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user interface of our products. You will lead our frontend discipline to ensure we are building a scalable platform that enables our product team to deliver consistent value at pace. This will require someone architecturally minded who is not afraid to take total ownership of their domain while working closely with our product, design, and engineering teams. The ideal person for this role will not only be a hands-on coder but also a strategic thinker who can contribute to the overall design and user experience.
What your day could look like
- Work closely with our product leaders to define technical roadmaps to ensure we are carving appropriate time to enable a scalable platform moving forward
- Hold accountability of the developer experience through patterns and ways of working that enable value to be consistently delivered at pace while holding the quality bar high
- Work tightly with our design leads to maintain and grow our design system across multiple platforms
- Go deep on each platform pushing the boundaries on what is capable to deliver a world-class user experience to our farmers
- Act as a thought leader on technical threads knowing the ins and outs of each platform decision and how it aligns with Halter’s and our teams’ objectives
- Hands-on frontend development delivering tested and reliable software through to production
- Work with other software engineers and product specialists as part of a cross-functional agile team, contributing to your teammates’ results, encouraging cross-pollination of roles, stretching the team to continuously inspect and improve, and encouraging collaboration and task sharing
- Maintain high levels of communication with your team and others about product requirements, timelines, risks, and priorities
- Join your teammates in ensuring your systems are always available and responsive, as part of our on-call roster, following good reliability engineering practices
- Stay up-to-date with your area of expertise and ensure the team is aware of new technological advances and better ways of working
- Promote best practices and new technologies among your peers to help nurture a world-class engineering culture
- And finally, this is a start-up, so you’ll also be rolling your sleeves up and helping with whatever is desired to succeed in our mission, knowing that your whole organisation is with you doing the same
What we’re looking for
- An excellent track record working as a frontend engineer, with examples of outcomes that you have accomplished and feel meaningful for you
- Experience working with modern cloud-based distributed systems (especially in the AWS context)
- Experience working in agile development practice, in a cross-functional development team
- Someone who is product-orientated and cares about customer experience, being able to solve real-life customer problems
- Experience working with any frontend tech stack! React Native would be a HUGE bonus but most importantly, we're looking for someone who is super passionate about what they do and is eager to learn!
- Sound understanding of how to develop testable systems and write great automated tests
- Understanding of common development processes such as version control, continuous integration/delivery, code reviews, and pair programming
- A degree in software engineering or equivalent is a bonus but is not a must-have
Why our team loves working at Halter ❤️
- Dedicate yourself to solving real-world problems alongside an epic team in a culture designed around growth.
- A genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
- The pride of joining an iconic New Zealand technology company. The excitement, risk, and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up on the global stage.
- Our ideas are truly valued, we are able to move fast, and our impact is real.
- State-of-the-art, dog-friendly office that’s been thoughtfully designed right in the heart of Auckland city. Did we mention dogs and cows?
- Healthy body, healthy mind. We’re partnered with Southern Cross Health Insurance to support your well-being.
- We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and many other parental benefits that support you and your family.
- Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used for anything that fuels personal growth.
- Our time to recharge is valued, we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- We offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.
- Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
