About the Team
Portal is the platform that connects Wayve to the outside world. The Portal team acts as the airlock between Wayve and its external partners: handling data flows, system integrations and direct use by OEMs. We operate as a startup within a scale-up: small, high-ownership, and working at the frontier of AV commercialisation.
The role
This is a partner-facing engineering role. You'll work directly with Wayve's OEM partners; building the solutions they need and resolving technical issues as they arise. You will split your time between building partner-facing product features, developing integrations between systems, improving observability and reliability, and resolving complex production issues when they arise.
This role requires significant autonomy. You'll often be the sole Wayve Portal representative resolving partner issues during UK off-hours, operating with a high degree of independence.
Key responsibilities:
Build software at the interface of OEM and Wayve systems APIs, cross-cloud integrations, and user-interfaces.
Customer-obsessed: work directly with our OEM partners to understand their needs and build impactful solutions with the Portal team.
Triage and resolve technical issues with Portal; whether reported by customers or detected through internal monitoring
Build monitoring and alerting tooling to proactively detect, triage and resolve integration issues before they impact customers
Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation as part of a follow-the-sun 24/7 coverage model
Operate autonomously during UK off-hours; act as the primary technical point of contact for Nissan for the Portal; manage complex issues independently and work with limited team overlap
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Partner Integration Engineer at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
Customer-facing technical experience: solutions engineering, technical support, integration engineering or similar
Backend engineering (we have Java and Python services)
Experience participating in on-call or support rotation, or supporting a production system
Operational Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure preferred)
Strong interpersonal and communication skills: comfortable working directly with external enterprise partners
Product-minded: you think about customer problems and build solutions to fix them.
High autonomy and ownership: comfortable in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
Motivated by a startup within a scale-up environment: small team, big impact, enterprise partners
Japanese and English fluency (essential: this is non-negotiable for the Japan role)
Able to operate independently with limited UK team overlap
Proven ability to manage complex partner relationships autonomously
Desirable
Experience building APIs for external users
Frontend development experience
Experience working with automotive or mobility industry partners
Background in SRE, DevOps or cloud operations
Experience building or operating monitoring or observability tooling
Why Join Us
Be at the direct commercial frontier of autonomous vehicle deployment: your work is what partners experience when they work with Wayve
A chance to own e2e solutions to real customer problems: understand, build, maintain.
High autonomy and ownership in a small, elite team
Enterprise-grade systems, startup-level impact
Competitive compensation, flexible working, and the chance to shape how Wayve's technology reaches the world
This is a full-time, office-based role located in Yokohama, depending on the candidate's place of residence. 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.