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.

 

 

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.

Why Halter?

• Every so often a company comes along that disrupts and transforms an entire industry, leaving society in a better place, and Halter is doing just that. We have a genuine and shared connection to our mission and want to make a real difference in the world.
• Our product changes the lives of our farmers and ranchers, 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.. New ideas are highly encouraged, we’re able to move fast, and our impact is real.
• 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.
• With Halter not being your standard 9-5, our time to recharge is important; we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave. As they say, the fastest car needs the best brakes.
• We offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan (shares)

$182,000 - $182,000 a year

 

 

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. We’re office first, not office only. This means that working from the office every day is our default setting, but we flex when needed. Your growth, learning, and impact are truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together, solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.

 

We have a state-of-the-art, dog-friendly office in the heart of Auckland City and a test farm in Morrinsville. Delicious snacks and drinks are readily available.