Lead Software Engineer - Farm Tech & AI Systems

Halter; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + benefits

Southern Cross Health Insurance

Self-development budget

Parental leave

Unlimited annual leave

Job summary

Halter is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to tackle the hardest problems across hardware, software and AI on real farms. You’ll own architectural decisions, write the code, and elevate the team’s capabilities through mentoring and robust design.

Whether frontend, backend or platform-focused, you’ll ship thoughtful work that scales in harsh environments. Join a fast-moving, office-first culture at Halter, where AWS, Terraform and CI/CD excellence drive our mission to empower farmers with

Qualifications

• Experience shipping complex systems in production.
• Comfort with cloud environments (AWS a plus).
• Ability to design robust, scalable architectures and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Take on the hardest problems and ship the work that proves them out.
• Make architectural calls and back them up with code.
• Set the standard for clean, observable, evolvable code and systems.
• Mentor other engineers through design discussions and code reviews.
• Evolve testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure patterns.
• Own the reliability and performance of your domain with end-to-end ownership.

Skills

Complex systems

AWS

CI/CD

Node.js

Kotlin

Go

IoT

On-call support

Education

Software engineering degree (nice to have)

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Job description

Halter is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to tackle the hardest problems across hardware, software and AI on real farms. You’ll own architectural decisions, write the code, and elevate the team’s capabilities through mentoring and robust design.

Whether frontend, backend or platform-focused, you’ll ship thoughtful work that scales in harsh environments. Join a fast-moving, office-first culture at Halter, where AWS, Terraform and CI/CD excellence drive our mission to empower farmers with