Data Engineer in London

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.

Yoto is a screen‐free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels – think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music.

We're on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio – and we would like you to help us achieve it!

Yoto's Data Team tackles a broad range of problems, from developing cutting edge data solutions to building and maintaining data pipelines, query and orchestration platforms. Our work spans across all the key strategic projects throughout the company. We supercharge growth by providing self‐service tools, valuable insights and advanced data science solutions. We work in a high‐trust environment with a lot of independence. Everyone can contribute ideas and be part of the decision making process.

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 ensure 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.
• Financial: Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service.
• Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy.
• Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days.
• Helping Families: Variety of family‐friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave.
• People & Planet: Up to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
• Fun Perks: You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!

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, regardless of their background, feel valued and supported.