Principal Frontend Engineer
Halter
Software Engineering
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on Monday, April 8, 2024
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 ❤️
- Every now and again a company comes along that disrupts and transforms an entire industry, leaving society in a better place. Few people get the opportunity to work at companies like these. Halter is an incredible technology transforming an essential industry. We have a genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
- Our product changes the lives of our customers, directly improving their livelihoods and their lifestyle. Your work matters.
- Dedicate yourself to solving real-world problems alongside an epic team in a high-growth culture. 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.
Our Office First Approach
We do have flexible working hours and you can work from home when you need to but we encourage our team to be in the office as much as you can.
We have an office-first approach because we would like to keep the opportunity for teams to have spontaneous interactions which in turn has allowed our team at Halter to foster strong relationships. Stronger relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, do meaningful work and as a result, be higher performing as a team.
About Halter
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, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
Join our team
Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
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