Responsibilities
- Own mission-critical SaaS platform and public API systems end to end, including design, implementation, and operation.
- Set technical direction and lead architecture across services and teams, balancing reliability, consistency, and performance.
- Break ambiguous problems into executable scope, review designs, and maintain the quality bar for shipped work without line management.
- Solve large-scale domain problems involving millions of parts, vehicle configurations, markets, languages, and fitment relationships.
- Build the platform that supports the Interpreter frontier model, with emphasis on latency, cost, evaluation, and correctness.
- Perform primarily backend and data engineering while contributing to customer-facing product surfaces when appropriate.
- Raise engineering standards through design reviews, mentoring, pragmatic standards, and high-quality code.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of experience building and operating complex production systems.
- Experience influencing technical direction beyond personally written code and owning important systems across team boundaries.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, concurrency, distributed systems, architecture, API design, testing, and technical judgment.
- Strong data-modeling skills across relational and NoSQL systems.
- Experience building reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and scaling systems from startup-grade to dependable production operation.
- Excellent written communication, particularly for technical design documentation.
- A demonstrated ability to improve the effectiveness of other engineers through mentoring and technical leadership.
- Experience with Rust is a bonus.
- Experience in automotive, parts, logistics, or supply chain is a bonus.
- Experience building or operating production ML or AI systems is a bonus.
Benefits
- Onboarding connects employees with their nearest office, with covered travel and accommodation for quarterly Season Openers.
- Relocation assistance and allowance are available for employees moving to Partly HQ.
- Catered lunches, snacks, and drinks are provided at Austin, Christchurch, Auckland, and London offices.
- A $1,500 annual wellness allowance or local equivalent is provided.
- Primary caregivers receive three months of fully paid parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.
- Austin-based employees generally work from the office every day, with flexibility to manage schedules around personal needs.
- Employees commuting to a Partly office or coworking space at least four days per week can choose paid 24/7 parking or a commuting allowance.
- Annual leave and sick leave are available from the first day, including the ability to use a negative balance.
- The company offers weekly happy hours, monthly lunches, quarterly Season Openers, and an annual global offsite.
- Charitable donations to GiveWell-listed charities are topped up by 33%.
- Employees receive share options with a four-year vesting schedule, one-year cliff, and up to ten years to exercise.
About Partly
Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts. We're a team of automotive veterans and world-class engineers, with backgrounds at Rocket Lab, Microsoft, F1, Apple, and Intel. As a result of our team's collective and unusually diverse experience, we have the perspective to understand what needs fixing and the expertise to actually fix it. We're building the first foundational AI model for the auto parts industry. Our technology delivers efficiencies across the entire collision parts supply chain - from procurement to order management. Partly is independent from any automotive body and backed by industry-leading investors including Octopus Ventures, Blackbird, Squarepeg, I2BF, Ten13, Shasta Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Randy Reddig (Square), Dylan Field (Figma), and Akshay Kothari (Notion). Partly is UK-based, expanding into the US, with our core engineering team based in Christchurch.