Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer - Cabin Experience

Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.

Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.

The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.

With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.

The Applications Team, as a part of Software Platform, is instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the technology that runs both in and for our robots and infrastructure. This team, operating across the entire stack, serves our internal development team, clients and business partners, and interfaces directly with our customers helping to provide the best possible experiences and most impactful interactions. As a part of the Applications Team, you will be writing high performance, cutting edge software that runs on premise, on robots, in the cloud, and in the hands of our users.

You'll own the Cabin experience: the in-vehicle interface every rider sees and interacts with from the moment they board to the moment they arrive. That includes the cabin display and controls, trip and status information, real-time voice/video connection to operators, the audio and ambient experience, and the pipeline that gets vehicle telemetry onto the screen. The cabin runs on constrained on-vehicle hardware with intermittent connectivity, and it has to be correct, fast, and calm under those conditions.

Our stack is TypeScript end to end: NestJS on Fastify on the server, HTMX-driven hypermedia UI on the client, with richer components where they earn their place. You'll partner daily with Design on the rider experience, with Compute Platform on the on-vehicle runtime, and with Network Platform on the vehicle-to-cloud path. You'll join as we prepare Cabin UX for our first public deployments, so this is a role with real ownership and a real ship date.

• Own the design, implementation, and reliability of the Cabin UX application end to end: server-rendered UI with HTMX, the NestJS services behind it, and the cloud APIs it depends on.

• Build rider-facing interfaces that behave correctly on embedded/tablet displays, in varying light and motion, and for riders of all abilities.

• Integrate real-time communication (WebRTC) between the cabin and operators, including audio/video capture, signaling, and graceful degradation on poor links.

• Integrate audio and ambient-experience systems (announcements, sound design, multi-channel playback) with the cabin application.

• Consume vehicle telemetry and fleet state over WebSockets, SSE, or message buses and render it in real time; design for stale, missing, or out-of-order data.

• Build for offline-first and low-connectivity operation: local state, queued actions, and safe defaults when the vehicle loses its uplink.

• Deploy and update software on on-vehicle edge compute; work with Compute Platform on packaging, provisioning, and fleet rollout.

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