Data Engineer - Go-to-Market
Halter
Data Science
Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on Jul 15, 2025
About the role
We're on the hunt for a world-class Data Engineer to join our team! You'll work hand-in-hand with our Revenue Operations Analyst and various stakeholders to build out modern data infrastructure to support our Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. The role will specialise in designing, building, and maintaining our rich and growing GTM data sets, a critical part of Halter’s growth story as we expand into international markets. Working hand in hand with our wider platform discipline, you’ll help build the foundations of our GTM data stack, and contribute to the strategic direction and future of analytics at Halter.
The ideal candidate is product-minded and user-driven; you’ll be working closely with internal stakeholders to deeply understand their needs - integrating data from sales, marketing, customer support, enterprise resource planning, finance and more to help the business tell rich stories with data, quickly. You’ll bring technical expertise, and work with GTM Operations leaders to make data accessible and at the forefront of key commercial decisions.
We’re looking for people who are comfortable working in a dynamic environment where they will be challenged on a daily basis. We want people who are obsessed with helping to deliver the best outcome for our farmers. To succeed you will need to be able to learn quickly and utilise your own initiative while working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Who are we looking for - these skills are essential for this role and reflect how we operate every day.
- Deep knowledge of SQL and data modelling with dbt.
- Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining reliable and cost-effective analytical data systems and, ensuring such systems deploy and operate according to industry best-practices. This includes an affinity for good testing strategies, continuous integration and deployment, and infrastructure-as-code (with Terraform).
- Expertise in building with Amazon Web Services; in particular, experience building with Amazon S3, Athena, Firehose, Kinesis, RDS for PostgreSQL, and AWS Lambda.
- Experience preparing datasets for analysts to transform and use for business intelligence products (Tableau ideally, or any other BI tool).
- You must be comfortable working from a macOS-based development environment and deploying onto Linux hosts.Some experience in backend software development is highly desirable; we build with Go (with Gin), Java and Kotlin (with Spring Boot), and Typescript (with Nest.js).
Bonus Skills
- Python knowledge (specifically experience within Airflow for data orchestration and automation).
- Any exposure to one or more of our GTM platforms - Salesforce CRM, Hubspot (marketing automation), Intercom (customer support), Linear, Xero.
- Knowledge or interest in collaborating to develop an analytics AI agent, we’re already thinking about the future of insights as a product for Halter.
What your day could look like
- Build and maintain our data pipelines and ETL processes, and ensure teams have access to the right data to deliver insights at the right time
- Work with GTM teams and the data engineering lead to implement new data systems that support their needs in conjunction with the overall data and system architecture
- Maintain high levels of communication with your team and others about product requirements, timelines, risks, and priorities
- Join your teammates in ensuring our systems are always available and responsive, as part of our on-call roster, following good reliability engineering practices
- Stay up-to-date with your area of expertise and ensure the team is aware of new technological advances and better ways of working
- And finally, this is a start-up, so you’ll also be rolling your sleeves up and helping with whatever is required to succeed in our mission, knowing that your whole organisation is with you doing the same
Why our team loves working at Halter
- Dedicate yourself to solving real-world problems alongside an epic team in a culture designed around growth.
- A genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
- The pride of joining an iconic New Zealand technology company. The excitement, risk, and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up on the global stage.
- Our ideas are truly valued, we are able to move fast, and our impact is real.
- State-of-the-art, dog-friendly office that’s been thoughtfully designed right in the heart of Auckland city. Did we mention dogs and cows?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.
- We offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.
- Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
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 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.
Join our team
- Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
- If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
- Please also feel free to check out the careers and culture page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.