Junior/Intermediate Engineers - Product & Engineering

JobSpace; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (6 months for primary,

4 weeks secondary caregiver leave

Self-development budget $1000 annually

Employee stock ownership plan

Southern Cross Health Insurance

Wellness leave

Unlimited paid annual leave

Job summary

Halter is seeking Junior/Intermediate Engineers to tackle unsolved problems in farming technology, spanning frontend, backend, full stack, and platform domains. You’ll build hardware-integrated software, model real-world dynamics, and ship robust features while embracing AI tools to raise team output.

You’ll gain deep domain knowledge, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to an office-first culture that values hands-on farming experience and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Have designed and delivered complex systems in production (with scars to show).
• Think like a product engineer: care about customer experience, not just clean code.
• Know how to use AI tools to lift team output.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver features end to end across surfaces farmers touch to services behind them.
• Make smart architectural calls, then back them up by writing the code.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and product to ship high-impact features quickly.
• Contribute to the reliability and performance of our systems; on-call rotation.
• Own services end-to-end and get out on farm to develop domain knowledge.

Education

Software engineering degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Jora New Zealand will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

We're looking for standout Junior/Intermediate Engineers with a deep product instinct: people who care as much about the problem as the solution. You'll take on challenges that genuinely haven't been solved before. 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, lift the bar on how we build, and use AI tools well.

The Kind of Problems Our Teams Solve

Halter is one system: hardware, software, and AI, running live on real farms. Our engineering teams own different slices of that system, but the problems all rhyme:

• Turning thousands of collars and billions of sensor events into a single, calm decision in a farmer's hand.
• Modelling the physical world (animals, pasture, terrain) accurately enough to act on in real time.
• Building mobile and web experiences that hold up at 5am whilst out in a paddock in the rain.
• Designing platforms and pipelines that scale with our incredible pace of growth without the seams showing.
• Engineering against constrained hardware, flaky rural connectivity, and the messiness of the physical world, and shipping with pace despite it.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and deliver features and systems end to end, from the surfaces farmers touch to the services and infrastructure behind them.
• Make smart architectural calls, then back them up by writing the code.
• Work closely with engineering, design, and product to ship high-impact features quickly.
• Collaborate with other engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and context sharing.
• Contribute to the reliability and performance of our systems, 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.

You’ll Be Great If You

• Have designed and delivered complex systems in production and have the experience (and scars) to show for it.
• 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 experience supporting and collaborating with other engineers.
• 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.

Depending on Where You Sit on the Stack, Some of These Will Land Harder Than Others:

• 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.
• Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
• 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.
• Importantly, we offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.

Our Office First Approach

There's a reason you visit your friends in person, live with your family and don't do dinners over Zoom. Humans are wired for connection. We believe a world‑class, in‑person office culture is the best way for high‑performing teams. Being office first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in‑person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long‑lasting relationships. Strong relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, and do meaningful and aligned work. We don't like having heaps of rules or policies, but this means having strong, trusted relationships is critical.

We're office first, not office only

This means working from the office everyday is our default setting, but we flex when we need to. We have a high‑trust culture, so everyone is trusted to do what's best for Halter. Our office vibe is something special, it's hard to describe until you're here, but people at Halter who have come from fully remote or hybrid companies say they could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. Your growth, your learning and your impact is truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.

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.

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