Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems.
- Contribute to smart architectural calls on services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure.
- Work closely with frontend, hardware, data, and product to ship high-impact features quickly.
- Apply AI tools (like Claude Code or Cursor) to improve team velocity while keeping systems easy to understand and evolve.
- Maintain the standard for thoughtful backend engineering - clean, observable, and easy to evolve.
- Support and mentor other engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and generous context sharing.
- Stay hands-on - helping shape the product, not just the code.
- Contribute to the reliability and performance of our systems - especially when things get tricky.
- Help evolve our testing strategies, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure patterns.
- You’ll contribute to setting the pace and quality bar for backend engineering at Halter.
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.
Work Arrangement
On-site
Additional Information
- 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 could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. Your growth, your learning and your impact is truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
