Engineering Team Lead, NZ

About the role

You will work alongside other members of the development team to tackle hard, exciting problems and build beautiful software for Partly's core SaaS and API platform. The role focuses on delivering highly scalable, fault‑tolerant, and accurate features while providing an excellent experience for businesses using the platform.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain mission‑critical systems for the core SaaS and API platform.
• Ensure features are highly scalable, fault‑tolerant, and accurate.
• Provide a great experience for businesses using the Partly platform.
• Develop and share software engineering best practices with the team.
• Become an expert in the complex automotive parts domain.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience developing complex applications.
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals such as data structures, concurrency, architecture, APIs, testing, and design patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and data models.
• Experience building reliable, distributed systems.

Required skills

• Node.js (bonus)
• Rust (bonus)
• Relational databases
• NoSQL databases
• Distributed systems

What we offer

• Healthy catered lunches at all offices.
• $1,500 annual wellness allowance.
• Three months fully paid parental leave with flexible return‑to‑work plan.
• Paid 24/7 parking or commuting allowance.
• Modern, architecturally designed office spaces.
• Office‑first environment with flexibility to manage your own schedule.
• Regular team celebrations, happy hours, quarterly season openers and an annual global offsite.