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Software Engineer (Product, AI Portal)
Software Engineer (Product, AI Portal)
Location: London, United Kingdom Department: Product & Delivery
About Us
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing usability and safety in automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
In our fast-paced environment, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. Aiming high while staying humble, we constantly learn and evolve, paving the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter—we value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment. Let Wayve be the experience that defines your career!
About the Team
AI Portal is the SaaS platform that connects Wayve to the outside world. This core team acts as the airlock between Wayve and its commercial partners, managing:
- Data flows
- Partner integrations
- Operational tooling
- Web interfaces for internal and external audiences
Operating like a startup within a scale-up, we:
- Build product
- Own systems end-to-end
- Operate what we ship
- Work closely with automotive industry leaders
To ensure Wayve’s technical excellence, we deliver world-class automation solutions.
The Role
This is a cloud-based software engineering position for a product-minded engineer driven by elegant, efficient construction, care for maintainability, and customer proximity.
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You’ll work across services, interfaces, infrastructure, and integrations, caring for solutions in production. We’re looking for engineers comfortable moving across the stack to solve customer problems.
As part of a build-it, run-it team, you will:
- Ship internal or partner-facing product features, including:
- Autonomy integrations for external partners
- Improve application quality and resolve production issues.
- Use metrics and feedback to continuously enhance Portal, ensuring an outstanding experience for all customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate software products used by Wayve staff and autonomy partners.
- Develop services, APIs, integrations, and user interfaces across the Portal platform.
- Work across:
- Microservices
- Web frontends
- Cloud infrastructure
- Partner-facing systems
- Improve the platform’s reliability, observability, and operability.
- Triage and resolve production issues, whether customer-reported or detected through internal monitoring.
- Participate in on-call and support rotations post-launch.
- Solve problems end-to-end:
- Understand customer needs
- Design, build, ship, and maintain solutions
About You
Wayve seeks engineers who bring self-motivation, ownership, and technical depth with product العدالة. Here’s what we’re looking for:
Essential
- Strong software engineering experience. Technologies used:
- Java
- Python
- TypeScript & React
- Experience building and operating production systems within a small team.
- Experience with multi-tenant platforms or expose APIs to external users.
- Experience building tools that streamline workflows for your team.
- B2B/enterprise SaaS experience with customer-facing production systems.
- Ability to move across the stack, including:
- Infrastructure
- Backend services
- APIs
- Frontend (though backend is the primary focus).
- Experience with on-call, incident response, or production system support.
- Strong communication skills and capacity to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Product mindset: Truthful to business needs to address user problems—not just technical execution.
- High-level of ownership in fast-paced, uncertain environments.
- Motivated to thrive within a small team contributing at scale-up velocity.
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Desirable
- Working knowledge of automotive, mobility, robotics, or autonomy.
- Security: Cross-cloud integrations, secure data flows within partner environments.
Work & Commitment
This is a full-time role based in Wayve’s London office, following a hybrid model:
- In-office time fosters innovation, relationships, and opportunities for growth.
- Remains flexible enough for remote productivity where appropriate.
Inclusivity Statement
Wayve is committed to fairness, accessibility, and respect for all:
- Disability recognition considerations, pregnancy, marital status, and more.
- No assumptions about marriage, pregnancy, care responsibilities or disability within interviews.
We respect every candidate’s uniqueness: if you’re passionate about autonomy and driving change, we encourage you to apply!
For more about values at Wayve: [Wayve Values](insert internal link).
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