Technical Solutions Engineer, UK

Note: Partly is headquartered in the UK, with a Product and Engineering base in Christchurch, and an early presence in San Francisco. If you are not based in London, we will fly you to our London office for 1 week per quarter for our “Season Openers” (we pay for your travel and accommodation).

🚀 Our story

Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world towards a sustainable future where waste is eliminated and all replacement parts are universally searchable, accessible and available to all.

Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise cutting-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia.

We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online.

Our investors in Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.), Square Peg, Octopus Ventures, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder).

We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our values are lived throughout every experience.

🖍️ This role

Data in the automotive industry is scattered around the world in a variety of complex formats, and the fun part is in unifying these data into a single format that drives our clients' business.

The Technical Solutions Engineer will play an essential role in working with our customers to set them up for success. You'll communicate with clients across the globe and work cross-functionally with our Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams.

You will be responsible for the entire data processing process, from collecting to transforming data for our enterprise clients. It requires comprehensive data science, data engineering, and business knowledge.

You will report to the EU GM.

💻 What You’ll Do

• Work with enterprise automotive customers to understand their business, goals, and data, and help them apply AI to solve key challenges.

• Partner with Account Executives to guide customers through evaluations and pilot projects. Define success metrics, lead technical discussions, and deliver strong outcomes.

• Build and demo solutions that showcase our AI and data platform for real customer use cases.

• Earn technical trust with data and engineering teams by providing clear architecture and integration guidance.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to solve customer problems and share insights that help shape the roadmap.

• Identify emerging use cases and patterns and turn them into repeatable best practices for future customers.

🥷 Your Skills

• Experience designing or deploying AI-powered products and understanding of evaluation metrics and integration patterns.

• Proficiency with SQL and Python, and familiarity with APIs, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and data workflows.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas clearly to both technical and business audiences.

• Hands-on mindset with the ability to prototype, experiment, and find practical solutions.

• Collaborative, curious, and customer-obsessed. You take pride in helping customers succeed and grow with the product.

• Bonus: experience or interest in the automotive parts, supply chain, or manufacturing industries.

Want to learn more about the problems we're solving and the culture we're building at Partly? Hear directly from our team here: https://shorturl.at/iAFUX

🪅 Benefits

• High trust, low process and no bureaucracy. We hire exceptional people whose judgment we trust. This means we proactively remove any process or rules that slow us down (for example, our expense policy is simply the “red face test”).

• Competitive base salary + equity. We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options for all full-time employees, ensuring everyone shares in the financial upside when we win.

• Flexible working hours. Choose when to work based on what time you’re most effective (no mandatory or set hours). We combine flexibility with an office-first approach (in cities where we have critical mass, i.e. London, Christchurch, Auckland).

• Focus Days. Two days per week, with zero meetings, dedicated solely to uninterrupted deep work

• Take time when you need it. We don’t ask questions or care if people have a negative leave balance. We work extremely hard and trust our team to take the time they need to recharge.

• Learn from the best. Whether it’s during a ‘Lunch n Learn’ or hearing from a unicorn CEO at a Fireside chat, you’ll have the opportunity to constantly learn from the world’s best.

• Quarterly season openers across the UK and EU. Connect regularly at the nearest centralised location for a week of collaboration, big-picture planning and team events.

• Annual global offsite in New Zealand. Travel with the rest of the UK and EU team as we gather and connect for 1-2 weeks at our product and engineering hub in Christchurch.

• Team connection. Monthly team lunches, celebrating our wins, happy hours and more!

• Parental leave and flexible return to work. Do what works for you. Primary carers can return with 4-day weeks (on 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

• CycleSaver: UK employees can now save up to 47% on Lime, Forest, Beryl, or Santander cycle subscriptions through CycleSaver, enjoying the health benefits of cycling to work with flexible, hassle-free monthly plans instead of bike ownership.