Data Engineer (Mid/Senior)

We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help support our fast growing company by providing access to reliable and insightful data.

Nice to meet you!

Yoto is inspiring the next generation of independent, creative minds. Our screen-free audio players let kids listen, learn and play at their own pace. All while making sure they’re safe to explore what inspires them.

The award-winning Yoto Player launched in early 2020 and quickly found a home on the world’s play mats, kitchen counters and bedside tables. It was later named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020. Yoto Mini, our portable player, launched in late 2021 and has accompanied kids on countless adventures. It won a D&AD pencil in 2022.

Our Card Store has 1,000 titles from some of the world's best creators, publishers and labels - think LEGO, Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Sony. We also create Yoto Originals like this one.

The role:

We are looking for a data expert to join the growing Yoto Tech Team. You’ll support a data driven company by ensuring our data collection and processing is reliable and scalable and the data is relevant and accessible to all parts of business. You’ll also be helping to analyze the data by dissecting stakeholder’s questions into requirements, helping to design and implement these requirements across our platform and presenting the answers. Equally you’ll be proactively identifying striking insights from available data.

You’ll need to understand data from top to bottom, be able to identify the right questions to ask and step into the data lifecycle in relevant places to work out the answers by yourself.

We welcome remote candidates. Our King's Cross office is always buzzing but at the same time a large part of the Yoto Tech Team is remote first. The choice is yours but you should be able to attend face-to-face meetings or team events in London once a month. We also offer flexible working hours and a work-anywhere policy.

What you’ll be doing:

• Help with creating and maintaining data pipelines feeding into analytical models
• Design new data collection points and challenge existing data processes to provide better insights for business
• Look after company data - protecting its accuracy, completeness, consistency, security, safety
• Take part in prioritizing and provide for data reporting needs across the company
• Get your hands dirty writing complex queries and scripts to transform and make sense of all the data
• Build dashboards for teams across the company providing access to KPIs, stats, performance metrics, alerts, etc
• Help with defining company’s domain model and ubiquitous language

What you’ll bring:

• Ability to identify the most relevant data and present it in compelling and comprehensible form
• Excellent SQL skills (window functions and CTE should hold no secrets for you), and experience with NoSQL
• Familiarity with statistical models and data mining algorithms
• At least basic programming/scripting skills (e.g. Python)
• Familiarity with Unix-based operating systems and/or experience with container technologies
• Experience with Cloud based platforms - ideally MongoDB Atlas, GCP (BigQuery, ) and AWS ( Redshift, Athena, S3, etc)
• Experience with front-end data visualization frameworks and/or BI tools

We’re a small team so you’ll get a chance to play with plenty of different things all the time – bonus points​ for any experience or desire to dig into any of the following:

• Machine learning experience
• Obsession with CI/CD
• Knowledge of data related testing best practices
• Interest in modern research methods like causal inference or techniques like difference in difference, synthetic control
• Probabilistic programming (PyMC, Numpyro, Stan)

What we offer in return:

• Generous EMI share options - we’re all invested in Yoto’s success
• Hybrid working with a choice based approach - we would love you to come into the office at least once a month
• A Work from Anywhere policy giving you the opportunity to work from a different location for a temporary period
• 25 days’ holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Extra leave for service - 1 extra day for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to a maximum of 5 extra days
• Life Assurance cover (3 x your salary) from day one
• Income Protection (long term sickness cover of 75% of your salary for up to 2 years) from day one and company sick pay that increases with length of service
• Enhanced company parental pay
• Personal Learnerbly development budget of £200 per year (awarded after successful completion of your probation)
• Yoto player and starter pack of cards
• 2x volunteer days a year
• Central London office in Kings Cross
• A collaborative tech-focused creative environment
• Company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest

About Yoto

We're a well funded tech company with a fast-growing international team.

Our offices are in London and New York, and we also have a small but perfectly formed team based in France. We have in-house expertise in hardware and software, technology development, product, content development and audio production, marketing, commercial and retail.

We’re excited to build and develop a tight-knit and energetic team to help make Yoto the next great family brand!

Flexible working and autonomy are key to life at Yoto. We support working parents because we know that life and work need to work together. And just as we share audio content from a diverse community of creators, we also strive to build an inclusive team. Our passionate DE&I group raises new voices, beliefs, and perspectives to help everyone at Yoto feel heard. Check out our website for more info on our approach to People and Planet.