Engineering Team Lead

Partly, headquartered in the UK with a Product and Engineering base in Christchurch and an early presence in San Francisco, is building the first global platform for replacement parts. Our mission is to connect the world’s parts and accelerate a sustainable future where waste is eliminated and all replacement parts are universally searchable, accessible, and available. Founded by ex‑Rocket Lab engineers, we use cutting‑edge technology to solve challenging problems in a $1.9 trillion industry.

We are a global team spanning Europe and Australasia and are growing rapidly.

As Engineering Team Lead, you will lead the team to develop, maintain, and ingest our foundational data standards. This is a deeply technical position requiring a high degree of ownership and a solid understanding of auto parts nuance. You will report to Levi Fawcett (CEO).

• Develop core production ingest systems, ensuring data accuracy is preserved in both structure and execution.
• Coordinate across the team to bridge the gap between global part and vehicle standards, our customers, and the data transformation team.
• Build tools to support manual research efforts and data transformation ingest.
• Become an expert in the complex and underserved auto parts domain.

• 5+ years of experience developing complex applications.
• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals, including data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong knowledge of databases and data models, relational and No
  
  SQL.
• (Bonus) Experience with automotive parts.
• (Bonus) Experience with the formation of any well‑used data standard or ISO.
• (Bonus) Experience with any form of complex cataloguing.

• High trust, low process, and no bureaucracy: we remove any process or rules that slow us down.
• Competitive base salary + equity for all full‑time employees.
• Flexible working hours with an office‑first approach where we have critical mass.
• Focus Days: two days per week with zero meetings, dedicated to uninterrupted deep work.
• Generous time off without questions or negative leave balance tracking.
• Modern offices in Christchurch CBD and on Auckland’s Karangahape Road with standing desks, healthy snacks, quality coffee, and drinks on tap.
• Opportunities for continuous learning through Lunch n Learn sessions and Fireside chats with industry leaders.
• Quarterly season openings and annual global offsite trips for collaboration and team events.
• Monthly team lunches and happy hours.
• Parental leave and flexible return to work
  : primary carers can return with 4‑day weeks (100% pay for the first 12 weeks); secondary carers get 10 days full pay.
• Payroll Giving: we encourage generous giving and donate to the high‑impact charities you support.

If you are relocating from overseas or domestically to Partly HQ, we offer a generous relocation allowance to support your move.

To learn more about the problems we’re solving and the culture we’re building, hear directly from our team at