Staff Fullstack Engineer - Onboard Experience
Join Wayve’s Onboard Experience team to lead the technical direction of the in-vehicle web experience that helps people see and trust what an autonomous vehicle is doing in real time. You will own a high-impact product used in live vehicle operations, spanning camera/video, 2D overlays, and 3D spatial visualisation of the vehicle’s surroundings. This is a rare opportunity to build reliable, safety-critical software under real-world constraints while shaping how complex AI systems are presented to humans. You will work closely with operators and engineers, balancing rapid iteration with robustness, performance, and maintainability.
Key responsibilities include leading architecture and technical strategy across web, backend, and in-vehicle environments, setting standards for reliability, performance, and code quality. You will drive the evolution of real-time visualisation features, including camera/video overlays and 3D spatial rendering of trajectories, perception, and occupancy. Partnering with operators, product, safety, and engineering stakeholders, you will prioritise and deliver improvements that measurably increase usability and operational efficiency. Additionally, you will mentor engineers and raise the bar on engineering practices, including testing, observability, incident readiness, and long-term maintainability. Making pragmatic trade-offs in a constrained, intermittently connected environment, you will ensure the system remains dependable in live demos and day-to-day operations.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience leading technical design and delivery of complex software systems across frontend and backend. Strong fullstack expertise in React and TypeScript, plus backend services and APIs, with confidence making architecture decisions and aligning multiple engineers, is essential. Experience setting technical direction across multi-platform surfaces (web and Android/in-vehicle), and ensuring cohesive integration end-to-end, is required. Demonstrated ability to build and operate production systems with high reliability expectations, including incident readiness and long-term maintainability, is necessary. A strong understanding of performance constraints in rich, interactive web UIs, including rendering, memory, and handling high-frequency or real-time data, is important. A track record of driving engineering quality through pragmatic practices such as testing strategy, observability, monitoring, and clear ownership is expected. The ability to work with high autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces and make effective trade-offs between speed, reliability, and maintainability is crucial. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, able to translate operator and stakeholder needs into technical plans and prioritised delivery, are vital. Experience mentoring engineers through design reviews, pairing, feedback, and setting team standards is also desired.
This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve, we want the best of all worlds, so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships, and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.