Director of Software Engineering

What you’ll be doing:

• Set and execute the engineering vision, ensuring alignment with what matters most to Halter
• Scale the engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, and mentorship.
• Lead the Software Platform team and Principal Engineers, to execute on your engineering vision.
• Upgrade and maintain developer experience, tools, and delivery practices.
• Collaborate closely with product leadership, executives, and customers to solve whatever matters most.
• Balance long-term strategy with hands-on technical oversight as needed.

You’ll be epic if you have:

• Leadership experience: several years in a senior people leadership role at other scale-ups or excellent software companies under your belt. Love building high performance, low-ego, outcome first engineering teams. 
• Recruitment and talent obsession: proven experience sourcing, attracting and hiring the best engineers at all levels. Ability to look ahead and close resource gaps before they appear.
• Technical chops: You have experience working on complex technical problems and are comfortable getting hands on if needed. 
• Experience and pragmatism: You can bring the best of your experience & knowledge, and apply it when and where it makes sense within Halter. We’re not looking for someone to apply a learnt pattern, but solve the most important problems with experience and current context.
• Exceptional problem solving: Someone who can be pointed at problems to solve and figure them out. 
• Deep curiosity: you are excited to learn farming and the Halter business. Curiosity beyond engineering will be a strong motivator for you.
• Ability to drive outcomes: you know how to deliver and you focus on the outcome for our farmers or for Halter over a perfect process. 

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.