Halter is a New Zealand startup that builds solar-powered smart collars for cattle enabling remote herding, virtual fencing and health monitoring.
ABOUT HALTER At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter 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 Founders Fund https://foundersfund.com, Bessemer Venture Partners https://www.bvp.com/, BOND, https://www.bondcap.com/ DCVC https://www.dcvc.com/, Blackbird https://www.blackbird.vc/, Promus Ventures https://www.promusventures.com/, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures https://www.icehouseventures.co.nz/?utm_term=icehouse%20ventures&utm_campaign=Brand+Keywords&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=4064636360&hsa_cam=16902737884&hsa_grp=134004309485&hsa_ad=592971340272&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1082530126230&hsa_kw=icehouse%20ventures&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY0J0DepRVFDmjQlAkJPbZuQnLSA5UVzUzOXYiPxkjX-SeVa513_BhkaAr-MEALw_wcB. To find out more, visit our LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/halter-limited & Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeathalter/. At Halter, we know how much farmers care-for their animals and their pasture. But the tools they rely on haven’t kept up, and we’re on a mission to change that. Halter helps farmers make smarter decisions - fast. We reckon good pasture management is the key to more productive and sustainable farms. More grass. Healthier soil. Happier animals. And more time back for the people doing the work. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an epic Lead Mobile Engineer with deep expertise in iOS native development and a product-obsessed mindset. This role requires a strong appetite for delivering a truly native mobile experience through a React Native codebase. As a leader, you will drive an obsession with creating fast and beautiful user experiences, alongside a deep focus on performance and improving the developer experience across the board. You'll be hands-on and collaborative, refining our ability to deliver a top-tier native mobile experience as we grow. Collaborating with our product and platform teams this engineer will be responsible for guiding our incredible mobile app into the place it needs to be. We care about how you think and act: curious, thoughtful, practical, and someone who takes absolute ownership. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead the architecture and implementation of core features for the Halter app, with a focus on deep native integration and components. - Collaborate closely with our React front-end engineers, guiding the domain to ensure a seamless and performant native mobile application. - Bring a strong product lens-work with Design and Product to make smart trade-offs and ship high-impact mobile features fast.Use AI tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor) to boost quality and speed without sacrificing readability or tests. - Drive mobile app performance from every angle, focusing on metrics and optimisations to deliver a quick user experience and have minimal impact on battery life. - Build resilient flows and graceful error handling for real-world field conditions. - Evolve our mobile design system and UI patterns.Raise the bar through reviews, pairing, and mentoring. YOU'LL THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU - Are deep in iOS native development and have strong opinions on mobile architecture, and systems to deliver an optimal native experience. - Experience, and scars, with App Store releases at scale, design systems, and mentoring mobile engineers. - Experience with React Native, understand how this maps to the iOS platform. - Demonstrate an obsession with performance optimisation and improving DX for mobile engineers. - Have shipped complex, high-performance native iOS applications in cross-functional teams. - Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments. - Understand performance deeply, accessibility, testing, and maintainability. - A degree is a bonus, not a requirement. OUR BENEFITS - 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 mean