Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Wayve
Fullstack Excellence Platform Squad
2-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
Autonomous mobility driven by AI
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Autonomous mobility driven by AI
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2-5 days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Good development skills in JavaScript, with knowledge in TypeScript
- Experience writing unit, UI, component or end-to-end tests
- Experience with React (or similar front-end frameworks)
- Passionate about writing clean, robust and maintainable code
- Advocate for improving reliability, observability and operability of systems
- You have a track record of promoting engineering best practices in teams
- You have excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Experience in setting up test frameworks
- Experience in micro-frontends
- Experience setting up and maintaining UI libraries
- Experience with security (mainly authorization) for frontend applications
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
- Experience with Python or other Backend programming languages
What the job involves
- As a founding fullstack software engineer on our Fullstack Excellence Platform squad, you’ll help shape the technical foundations that drive our applications—both internally and externally
- You’ll own and improve our core front-end infrastructure (including UI test frameworks, component libraries, and micro-frontend architecture), while also contributing to security, scalability, and DevOps best practices
- This team’s mission is key to keep our engineering efforts at the cutting edge, providing efficient and secure solutions for both internal product teams and external customers
- You’ll work alongside experts in front-end, back-end, security, and infrastructure, delivering seamless developer experiences and world-class user interfaces
- You’ll juggle platform-wide initiatives—like standardizing UI components and advising on security and infrastructure—alongside hands-on feature development for our internal products, plus supporting the transition of select apps for external release
- In doing so, you’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering leaders to ensure our platforms meet and exceed expectations
- Your contributions will set engineering standards across teams and applications, fostering a culture of technical excellence throughout the organization
- Prepare internal applications for external usage – Making sure we can deploy with confidence, to secure and stable applications that are loved by our customers
- UI Test Frameworks – Making sure our tests are reliable, easy to maintain, and well-integrated with CI/CD
- Component Library & Micro-Frontend Infrastructure – Building scalable, reusable solutions that help product teams move faster
- Security & Infrastructure Consulting – Embedding best practices for frontend security, performance, and reliability from concept to production
- Product Feature Development – Occasionally collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality features for both internal and external users
Our take
Wayve is developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning, simulation, and computer vision. Wayve’s core premise is that the big breakthrough in self-driving cars will come from better AI brains rather than more sensors or “hand-coded” rules which it believes are highly restrictive and not at all scalable.
The company said that it trains its autonomous driving system using simulated environments and then transfers that knowledge into the real world, where it emulates how humans adapt to conditions in real time. It ultimately relies on end-to-end deep learning AI rather than hard-engineered AI. This is one of the world's hardest problems to solve, but Wayve has made an exciting start and is taking a very different approach to competitors like Uber and Waymo, who are relying more on sensors.
Following a few years of innovative breakthroughs, Wayve now has backing from high-profile investors such as Microsoft and angels, including Uber's chief scientist Zoubin Ghahramani and Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley robotics professor and pioneer of deep reinforcement learning. The company's strategic partnerships with outfits like Asda and Ocado to test-run autonomous deliveries, as well as publicity through the Minister is a show of confidence in the future of Wayve's solution to autonomous driving.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Learning budget
- In-house chef
- Flexible Working
- Private health insurance and therapy
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Onsite bar
- Large social budgets
- Enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Pave new roads, explore unknown horizons: We take calculated risks and embrace unknown territory
- Leave positive tracks: A big reason for working on autonomous vehicles is for the positive impact they can have to the environment, the lives they will save, the opportunities they will create for others and more!
- Autonomous in thought, collective in action: We are built of strong, curious individuals coming from all walks of life, but who, together, want to achieve a common goal.
- Drive each other forward: We are a company that stands strong upon the foundation which it has created. This foundation is the team, the individuals who make Wayve, Wayve.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alex Kendall
(CEO)Has a PhD from Cambridge in Computer Vision & Robotics. Previously Research Engineer at Skydio and Advisor to Scape Technologies
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