Solutions Engineer, Partly
Expansion UK
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Building digital infrastructure for automotive parts supply
Posted today
Building digital infrastructure for automotive parts supply
101-200 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's parts, making it easy for repairers to find and buy the right parts.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable working close to data and code. You can write SQL, read and debug your way around a codebase, and stand up demos or prototypes yourself rather than waiting on engineering
- Strong technical problem-solver and systems thinker. You break ambiguous, messy problems into root causes and generalisable solutions, not one-off fixes
- Commercially minded. You understand how a technical decision affects a deal, and you can build the business case (frameworks, calculators, reporting) that moves a customer
- Excellent communicator who builds rapport. You hold your own with customers and translate fluently between their world and Partly's Product and Engineering teams
- Self-directed and high-ownership. You're comfortable being the only solutions person in a market, owning problems end-to-end with little hand-holding
- (Preferred) Experience in a solutions engineering, forward-deployed, or technical pre-sales role, ideally integrating into or selling to enterprise customers
- (Bonus) Context in the automotive, parts, insurance, or estimating space (CABAS, CCC, Audatex/Solera, or similar), or experience building integrations against messy external data formats
- Please note: If you don't have all the skills/experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many folks often count themselves out. Please allow us to learn more about you and why you're exceptional
What the job involves
- This is a forward-deployed solutions role at the front line of Partly's European expansion. You'll be the technical engine behind new-market deals across the UK and the Nordics, turning messy real-world problems into signed pilots, and putting genuinely differentiated AI in front of the people who run the repair industry
- Here's what you'd be working with. Partly runs two connected layers. Partly.com is the infrastructure platform, the B2B layer that powers parts data, cataloguing, and procurement across hundreds of integrations globally. Partly.ai is the AI tool for repairers, built on top of that infrastructure, that makes finding and sourcing the right part feel like magic
- Both are powered by Interpreter, Partly's proprietary foundation model for understanding automotive parts at scale, trained on licensed OEM build data across 52+ manufacturer agreements and continuously sharpened by feedback from thousands of users across our global network. No general-purpose AI model comes close on parts accuracy, and that is what makes agentic procurement automation possible at the precision the repair industry demands
- Your job is to deploy that into markets we haven't cracked yet. Automotive data is scattered around the world in complex, inconsistent formats, and the interesting work is in unifying it into something that drives a customer's business
- You'll sit between Sales, Product, and Engineering, resolving the technical blockers that stand between a prospect and a deal, building demos and experimental features that show off what the Interpreter can do, and shaping how the product gets built for and applied to each new market
- Unblock new-market deals end-to-end. Own the technical path from first conversation to signed pilot across the UK and Nordics: scope integrations, map end-to-end estimating and parts workflows, and clear whatever stands between a prospect and a yes
- Build integrations that make pilots possible. Stand up and debug the connections customers depend on (for example, the CABAS estimating integration for the Finland/InCar pilot), working close to the data and the code to get them live in test and beyond
- Build demos and experimental features. Create market demos and portal prototypes that prove what Partly can do before committing core engineering, iterating fast on what prospects react to
- Run Technical Readiness Assessments. Produce the TRAs that map a customer's systems and dependencies, so both sides know exactly what a pilot requires
- Turn data into a commercial case. Build value-proposition frameworks, calculators, and reporting (for example, insurer reporting dashboards) that show customers the value in their own numbers
- Be the voice of the UK and Nordics customer to Product. Translate recurring deal blockers into clear, prioritised product asks, and shape how the product gets built and applied for each new market
- Work cross-functionally to hit deadlines. Coordinate across Sales, Product, and Engineering to solve customer problems and keep deals moving
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Partly is a fast-growing tech company quietly tackling one of the biggest challenges in the automotive industry — finding the right auto parts. In a world where nearly everything is digital and automated, the parts industry has been lacking innovation. Partly is changing that by building the AI-powered infrastructure that connects the global auto parts supply chain.
Think of it like this: what Visa does for financial transactions, Partly does for auto parts. It doesn't sell parts but automates the complex, behind-the-scenes processes, ensuring that buying and selling parts is seamless and near error-free. With a massive database of over 50 million vehicle parts, it offers modular tools, allowing businesses to build their own systems without starting from scratch.
In 2024, the company was named New Zealand's fastest-growing startup and has expanded to the US and UK. CEO Levi Fawcett took home top honours at the New Zealand Leadership Awards as well. It's no surprise either, with the company raising the country's largest-ever Series A ($36M) and continuing to scale at pace. With big-name investors, a growing team, and a product solving a real global problem, Partly is very much on its way to becoming a true industry giant.
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Meet the team
Levi Fawcett, CEO
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2026
$90m
SERIES B
Dec 2022
$21.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $115.7m
Company 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.
Company HQ
71 Central Street , London , UK
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Leadership
Levi Fawcett
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer at Rocket Lab USA.
Tony Austin
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously the founder of Metamotiv. Tony also spent 7 years at Amazon, joining as the Head of Automotive Europe before becoming the General Manager of Amazon Australia & New Zealand (Retail). He also spent some time as a Country Leader at eBay Motors Group and as a UK Category Manager at AS Watson.
Harry Uffindell
(CPO)Previously a Startup Advisor (Growth, Operations, People, Fundraising) at Growth Engineer. Prior to that, Harry was a Country Manager & Head of Growth at Tilt until it was acquired by Airbnb where he then became the Head of BizOps & Strategy, APAC at Airbnb.
Tim Grunshaw
(Vice President of Engineering)Tim previously spent 7 years at Microsoft in various Engineering roles. Prior to that, he co-founded TradeIntel where he worked as a Software Engineer for 3 years.
Nathan Taylor
(Co-Founder & COO)Nathan previously co-founded AllGoods where he served as the Head of Operations. Prior to that, he was an Editor & Translator at Chengdu TV and a Chinese-English Translator at HS Translation.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Partly
- At Partly, we care about one thing above all else: hiring the best people in the world. Your talent, creativity, and drive are what matter, not your background, gender, beliefs, or anything else. We’re a global team built on excellence, respect, and collaboration. Great ideas come from everywhere, and we make space for everyone to do their best work and challenge each other to grow. For us, diversity isn’t a metric; it’s a natural outcome of finding exceptional people wherever they are. If you’re great at what you do, you belong here.
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