Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer, Austin

The posting, as Partly wrote it

Note: Partly is headquartered in Austin, TX with offices in London, UK, Christchurch, NZ and Auckland, NZ. Wherever you're based, we'll connect you with your nearest office for onboarding, and fly you to join the full team for our quarterly "Season Openers" (we cover travel and accommodation). If you're relocating to join us, we can also assist with relocation costs.

🚀 OUR STORY

Partly is building the infrastructure for anyone to repair anything. We believe everything built should be repairable, and we're building frontier AI to put repair knowledge to work, starting with the $2tn automotive market.

Our model, Interpreter, is the first AI purpose-built to understand repair. Trained on 1M+ car models and 1B+ parts, it reads a repair job the way an estimator does, resolves damage into the exact purchasable part, and shows its reasoning with a confidence score. On real production jobs, an estimator working with Interpreter reaches 98.8% parts-list accuracy, against 92.1% with today's tools. It powers PartlyRepair, used by collision shops, workshops and suppliers to take the admin off the job; PartlyLabs, the agentic infrastructure enterprises use to deploy Interpreter across their own workflows; and a developer API.

Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we've raised a $50m Series B led by DST Global (Anthropic, Airbnb, Meta, TikTok, Spotify), with Blackbird Ventures, WNDR, Activant Capital, Icehouse Ventures, Square Peg, Airtree and Ecliptic Venture Capital. Hear it from the team: Why Partly exists https://www.partly.com/nz/careers/videos/why-partly-exists and AI at Partly https://www.partly.com/nz/careers/videos/ai-at-partly.

🖍️ THIS ROLE

There is no canonical map of the world's parts. Every manufacturer, distributor, recycler and insurer describes the same component differently; a different number, a different name, a different language, a different idea of what it even fits. Partly is building the system that resolves all of it, and the platform that thousands of businesses run their operations on top of.

We're hiring a Staff and Senior Staff Engineers to lead technically on that work. Not to sit above it, to be in it. You'll own the systems that matter most, set direction on problems that cross team boundaries, and direct the work and the output of the engineers around you. You'll write production code, and you'll spend real time making other engineers better.

The timing matters. We've tripled in size in 18 months with a $50m Series B behind us. The architecture you choose now is what the next hundred engineers inherit. Very few engineers get to make decisions with that much leverage.

💻 WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own mission-critical systems end to end, design, build, operate. Our SaaS platform and public API sit in the middle of real commercial transactions. When they're slow or wrong, vehicles don't get repaired.
• Set technical direction beyond your own team. You'll lead architecture across services and teams, and make the reli

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• Family Comes First - Primary caregivers receive 3 months of fully paid parental leave, plus a flexible return-to-work plan (four days a week at full pay for your first three months back).
• Workspaces That Inspire - Our brand-new, architecturally designed offices are built for collaboration and creativity, with great coffee, social spaces, and some of the best cafes just a few steps away.
• Getting Here Is On Us - If you commute to a Partly office or coworking space (atleast 4 days a week), choose from a paid 24/7 parking spot or a commuting allowance. One less thing to think about!
• Office-First with Flexibility - In cities where we have an office (Christchurch, Auckland, London, and Austin), we default to working from the office every day. This lets us move faster, make better decisions, and build strong relationships. We also operate with a high-trust environment, so you can manage your time around your life and flex your schedule to do your best work.
• Time Off - you can use your annual leave and sick leave from day one, no waiting to accrue it first. And if you ever go into a negative balance, that's fine too, we trust you to manage your own time off
• We Celebrate Together - From weekly happy hours and monthly lunches to quarterly season openers and an annual global offsite, we make time to connect, celebrate, and have fun as one team.
• Giving - We support charitable giving and will top up your donation by 33% for charities on the GiveWell list
• Equity - You'll receive share options (ESOP) with a 4-year vesting schedule and a 1-year cliff, true ownership in Partly from day one. Your strike price is a flat $0.01 per share, and you have up to 10 years to exercise.

🛬 RELOCATION

If you're relocating to Partly HQ, whether from overseas or within the country, we offer a generous relocation allowance to help support your move.