Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join our team to design, build, and maintain the data pipelines, models, and platforms that power insights and decision-making across Yoto.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building robust and scalable data extraction pipelines using dlthub, getting data from our diverse sources (e.g. internal platform, third- and first-party APIs, etc.) into our existing pipeline infrastructure.
• Creating, maintaining and optimising data models using dbt, turning data into usable, enriched datasets for internal self-service reporting and analytics use.
• Working with Dagster as our orchestration platform to manage pipeline dependencies, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Partnering with data scientists and analysts to make sure that datasets are meaningful, intuitive and relevant for their use cases, particularly for consumption via Lightdash (our BI tool).
• Creating clear data governance principles and practices, being an advocate for high quality data creation and usage across the business.
• Contributing to data platform infrastructure management and optimisation.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in a data engineering and/or analytics engineering role, with a track record of having sustained impact.
• Experience with modern orchestration tools (Dagster preferred, Airflow or similar also welcome) for managing complex data workflows.
• Excellent SQL and strong Python expertise - you’ll be writing custom data assets in Dagster and contributing to dbt pipelines.
• Experience with core git workflows and version control best practices.
• Experience working cross-functionally and building strong relationships with data users of varying degrees of data literacy.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the opportunity to shape how data drives decision-making at Yoto.

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 based on experience.

What you can expect from Yoto:

• Flexibility: Hybrid working - expectation of 1 day a week on average in our London office, but you are welcome to come in more than this. Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
• Financial: Generous share option programme, income protection, company sick pay, life assurance from day one, pension contributions, and employee referral bonus scheme.
• Health & Wellness: Private medical insurance, wellbeing allowance, 24/7 employee assistance, dental guidance, and bike to work scheme.
• Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays, birthday off, extra holiday for each year worked after 2 years up to 5 extra days, and sabbatical after 4 years.
• Helping Families: Family-friendly leave and nursery scheme.
• People & Planet: Volunteer days and book allowance for development.
• Fun Perks: Your own Yoto player and starter pack, regular socials and YotoFest.

Equity and Diversity: At Yoto, we love creating a world where childhood is rich with discovery and joy. We’re also passionate about building a workplace where everyone can thrive - both professionally and personally. We value flexibility and give our team the freedom to balance life and work in ways that suit them. We’re committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment where all individuals feel valued and supported. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion group holds bi-monthly forums to elevate diverse voices and perspectives, ensuring everyone at Yoto feels heard, respected, and appreciated. We don’t just embrace differences - we celebrate them. We share audio content from a vibrant and diverse community of creators and we are building a team that reflects that same diversity.

Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page. All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.