Partly - Product Engineer (FDE)

• Non-negotiables • You ship end to end: A track record of taking features from idea to production, code included, with clear accountability for whether they worked. Roughly 3+ years building and shipping software in production. • Genuine customer obsession: A real habit of spending time with users in their work context, with a track record of that depth driving what you build. • Product taste and craft: The bar is experiences that feel effortless to time-pressured, non-technical users across fragmented, high-stakes workflows. Functional is not the finish line. • A point of view on agentic product design: How an experience moves from manual operation to supervised delegation, and how automation earns user trust gradually rather than all at once. • You build rapid prototypes yourself, with AI-assisted tools as a first instinct for testing an idea. • Solid full-stack engineering with a frontend lean: Production-quality code and sound fundamentals. Systems-specialist depth is not the point of the role. • Trade-off fluency: You weigh product impact against engineering effort and often find a cheaper route to the same result. • Strong analytical instinct: You define the metric, build the view, read it, and act without waiting for a data team. • You operate well in ambiguity and autonomy, and shape the problem rather than waiting for a spec. • Strong signals we look for • Shipped AI-assisted or agent-driven features in production, particularly where the human stays in the loop. • Built for a multi-persona, operational, or workflow-heavy B2B product. • Founder background, or early employee at a startup that scaled materially. • You've killed or radically changed something you personally believed in and can explain why. • Domain knowledge in automotive, the parts aftermarket, repair, or insurance claims. • Marketplace or network experience, from the demand or supply side. • Rust, or genuine eagerness to learn it. It is part of our stack. • 🧭 How you'll think and operate • "I sat with a parts manager on Tuesday, saw exactly where the order flow broke, prototyped a fix that afternoon, and three shops were testing it by Friday." • "I could build the 'right' version in three weeks, or a version that answers the actual question in two days. I shipped the two-day one, learned it was wrong, and saved myself the three weeks." • "Here's what the usage data shows. Here's what I think it means. Here's the change I made, and here's how I'll know if I was wrong." • "This is my surface. If it feels clunky, that's on me. Let me show you exactly what's clunky and what I'm doing about it." • Speed, ownership, and judgment are the baseline. What sets the best candidates apart is genuine empathy for the customer and the ability to turn that empathy into software that works beautifully in the real world, not just in the demo. • Please note: if you don't have all the skills or experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many people count themselves out. We'd love the chance to learn more about you and why you're exceptional.