About the Job
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.
To find out more, visit our LinkedIn & Instagram.
Key Responsibilities
You'll be the first software engineer in People Ecosystems, the team building the product, data and analytics layer underneath People and Performance at Halter. Our people data lake went live earlier this year, and there's a long list of things that should be beautiful product rather than process.
You'll get the intent and the constraints, and real freedom on how. We'll collaborate on what matters and why, you'll build, and we'll shape it together as it comes to life.
You won't be on an island. You'll report to our Manager, People Ecosystems, who owns the roadmap and will coach you directly, and you'll tap into Halter's engineering and product teams for code review, architecture and learning.
Day to day, you'll work side by side with our product managers for Talent and People. You'll work across both, so you'll get to see (and shape) the whole employee lifecycle.
Required Skills & Abilities
We're after someone with around 4 to 5 years' experience, real craft, and plenty of room left to grow.
Strong full-stack engineering skills, ideally TypeScript and/or React on the front end and Python and/or Node on the back end
Solid experience designing and building production-grade APIs, services, data structures and data pipelines
Hands-on with the engineering foundations: managing repos and pull requests, reviewing code, and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
You build for the long run: maintainable code, with reliability, observability and performance in mind from day one
Comfortable working across the stack. You're not precious about where a problem lives, you just want to solve it well
You care whether what you build gets used. A feature nobody adopts isn't a win
Self-aware. You know what you're great at and where you're still growing, and you say both out loud
Empathetic. You'll be building with data about people’s experience and performance. You feel the weight and sensitivity of that, and it shows in how you build
Coachable. You take direction well and you don't need to have had the idea to be all in on it. You also read between the lines, because not everything in this space can be written down
A good teacher. You explain things in a way that leaves people feeling more capable, not less
A simplifier. You love taking something complex and making it simple enough that everyone can understand it and have a say
Collaborative. You enjoy working tightly with non-technical teams and bringing people along with you
Experience building with AI, like vector databases, embeddings or retrieval systems
Exposure to workflow tools like n8n, Temporal or Airflow
Experience with data engineering, ETL pipelines or event-driven architecture
Built with HR, recruiting or payroll systems and their APIs
A love for fast-paced, ambiguous environments. You actually enjoy the uncertainty
This is a brand new seat, which means there's no ceiling on what it becomes. As Halter grows, so does this role. You'll get first look at every new problem across Talent and People, build the foundations everyone after you works on, and have a real runway to grow as fast as you can take it.
