The future of food production hinges on an important question: How do we feed the world’s growing population without compromising our natural resources? Farmers feed our population and hold the keys to vital climate solutions. At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers to run the most productive and sustainable farms. Farmers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional farming. They’re growing more grass, increasing milk production and improving the health and wellbeing of their cows.
We bridge deep tech into farming. Halter enables farmers to remotely shift, virtually fence and proactively monitor their cows’ health and behaviour. Can you imagine watching 500 dairy cows turn in unison and walk calmly towards the milking shed? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a mob of cows walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing farming with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry.
People join Halter because they want 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.
About the role
Are you a highly skilled and experienced engineer looking for an exciting leadership opportunity? Are you passionate about leveraging your deep technical expertise to drive innovation and deliver exceptional results?
We are looking for someone hungry to make an impact on the world to join us and lead a team of Software Engineers in our Animal domain. Centred around ensuring both positive farmer and animal outcomes when interacting with our core virtual fencing, heat and health products, this role favours someone who is deeply technical, able to reason from first principles with a strong bias to delivering the right solution for the problem across a diverse technology stack.
We push the boundaries of innovation, delivering cutting-edge solutions, and making a positive impact on society. Our dynamic and collaborative work environment fosters creativity, encourages growth, and rewards excellence.
We are a team of high performers looking for a strong technical leader who enables, motivates and drives their team to meet or exceed specific goals and objectives. Focused on results, not the process, and is able to find a balance between these results and care, loyalty and wellbeing of their team.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our organisation, leading a team of talented engineers and spearheading the development of innovative products and solutions. We are seeking a visionary technical expert who can guide the team through complex technical challenges and drive the execution of our product roadmap.
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!
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.
Join our team
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!
