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 React Native engineer with a product-obsessed mindset and the ability to lead-someone who cares about what we build, and why. This is a rare chance to solve hard mobile problems at scale. As a lead, you’ll be across our iOS and Android app experience end-to-end-TypeScript, React Native, and the native bridges that make it work. You’ll be hands-on and collaborative; shipping features, improving performance, hardening offline behaviour, and shaping how we work. 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 React Native features, including native modules/bridges where it makes sense. - Bring a strong product lens - you’ll work closely with design and product to make smart trade-offs and ship high-impact features fast. - Use AI tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor) to boost quality and speed without sacrificing readability or tests. - Drive app performance from every angle - The Halter app has a complex mobile product, understanding of how to tune it is an essential skillset. - Build resilient offline-first 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 BE GREAT IF YOU - Are deep in React Native and have strong opinions on mobile architecture (navigation, state, module boundaries). - Think like a product engineer-customer outcomes first, clean code in service of that.Know when to go native and how to design stable bridges. - Have shipped complex React Native apps in cross-functional teams. - Thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.Understand performance deeply, accessibility, testing, and maintainability. - Bonus: experience with CodePush, App Store releases at scale, design systems, and mentoring mobile engineers. - 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 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 co