Software Engineer - People Ecosystem

The role

You will build and ship full-stack products across Talent and People. You will design backend services, APIs, and data structures to connect hiring, HR, payroll, and performance data.

What you will do

• Build and ship full-stack products across Talent and People
• Design and build backend services, APIs and data structures
• Build clean, intuitive front ends
• Take features from scoping, architecting, building, testing, deploying and iterating
• Look after engineering foundations like repos, pull requests, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines
• Use AI as a tool in your toolkit
• Treat people data as the most sensitive data in the company
• Help product managers for Talent and People become more technical

Required qualifications

• Around 4 to 5 years' experience
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, ideally TypeScript and/or React on the front end and Python and/or Node on the back end
• Solid experience designing and building production-grade APIs, services, data structures and data pipelines
• Hands-on with managing repos and pull requests, reviewing code, and building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Build for the long run with maintainable code, reliability, observability and performance
• Comfortable working across the stack
• Self-aware
• Empathetic
• Coachable
• A good teacher
• A simplifier
• Collaborative

Nice to have

• Experience building with AI, like vector databases, embeddings or retrieval systems
• Exposure to workflow tools like n8n, Temporal or Airflow
• Experience with data engineering, ETL pipelines or event-driven architecture
• Built with HR, recruiting or payroll systems and their APIs
• A love for fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Benefits

• Remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan
• Southern Cross Health Insurance
• Annual $1000 self-development budget
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave
• Wellness leave
• Unlimited paid annual leave

Before you apply

• Apply by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV

About the company

Halter enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations. The company is backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.