Founding Software Engineer - AI-Driven Farm Tech

Halter; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Delicious snacks and drinks

Southern Cross Health Insurance

6 months parental leave

$1,000 personal growth budget

Wellness leave

Unlimited paid annual leave

Employee stock ownership plan

Job summary

Halter is redefining farming technology at the intersection of hardware, software, AI and real-world operations. You will be the first software engineer on a new product vertical, owning the architecture, stack, tooling and engineering standards from day one, turning experiments into a product farmers rely on.

Expect to visit farms regularly, build scrappy prototypes, run experiments, and iterate rapidly as we scale.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to own end-to-end product features across backend and frontend.
• Set foundational architectural patterns and drive engineering culture.
• Daily use of AI tools for building, debugging, and architecting across stacks.

Responsibilities

• Full-stack development / Generalist: build and own core product features end-to-end.
• Architecture ownership: establish foundational patterns and technical decisions for scale.
• AI-native development: use AI tools daily for architecting, building, and debugging across stacks.

Skills

Full-stack development

Architecture ownership

AI-native development

Prototyping & experimentation

On-farm field testing

Job description

Halter is redefining farming technology at the intersection of hardware, software, AI and real-world operations. You will be the first software engineer on a new product vertical, owning the architecture, stack, tooling and engineering standards from day one, turning experiments into a product farmers rely on.

Expect to visit farms regularly, build scrappy prototypes, run experiments, and iterate rapidly as we scale.