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As a Staff Data Platform Engineer, you'll shape the technical direction of our data platform and drive insights and decision-making across the business. You'll work in a high-trust environment with a lot of independence and have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's growth.\nMissions\nOwnership of the architecture, reliability, and long-term health of Yoto's end-to-end data platform.\nDefining and maintaining the data platform roadmap, translating company strategy into a sequenced set of technical investments.\nWorking across data science, analytics, product, and software engineering to convert business requirements into platform capabilities.\nProfil recherché\nWe’re looking for a\n\nStaff Data Platform Engineer\n\nto join our Data team at Yoto, to help power insights and decision-making across the business. You'll set technical direction, raise the engineering bar across the data team, and shape how our data platform scales as Yoto grows.\n About Yoto \nYoto 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 also create\n\nYoto Originals like BrainBots\n\n.\nVoted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.\n\nRanked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.\n\nFeatured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.\n\nNamed one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.\n\nWe’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. and growing!\n\nWe’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!\n Yoto’s Data Team \nWe’re a growing team at the heart of all the decisions Yoto makes. We tackle 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.\n What you’ll be doing :\nOwn the architecture, reliability and long-term health of Yoto's end-to-end data platform, spanning GKE-hosted infrastructure, data ingestion, orchestration and transformation\n\nDefine and maintain the data platform roadmap, translating company strategy into a sequenced set of technical investments with clear short- and long-term trade-offs documented\n\nWork across data science, analytics, product and software engineering to convert business requirements into platform capabilities, and ensure the platform serves company-wide use cases\n\nSet and enforce standards for data governance, access controls, data quality and ownership across the platform\n\nManage and develop a mid-level data engineer directly, including regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and structured growth plans, while also raising technical capability across the wider data team through code review, documentation and pairing.\n\n What you’ll bring: \nExtensive hands-on experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, with a demonstrable track record of owning platform-level systems end-to-end, not just individual pipelines\n\nExperience designing and operating production data platforms across cloud infrastructure, orchestration, ingestion and SQL transformation layers\n\nPractical experience with GCP, BigQuery, Terraform, Kubernetes, Dagster, dlt and dbt - or equivalent tools with the ability to articulate transferable reasoning\n\nDemonstrated ability to make and document architecture decisions that involve meaningful trade-offs across multiple teams or domains\n\nA track record of authoring and landing technical standards across Python, SQL and infrastructure code that other engineers, analysts and data scientists adopt in their day-to-day work\n\nExperience defining the scope of ambiguous technical problems - identifying what needs to be built and why, not just executing against an existing spec.\n\nNice to have:\n\nPrior experience line managing an engineer, including setting objectives and running performance conversations\n\nFamiliarity with GitOps practices in a data platform context.\n\nSalary:\n\n£80,000 - £90,000 based on experience\n How we use AI at Yoto \nWe think using AI to work smarter is part of the job.\nAt Yoto, we use AI to help us move faster and reduce manual work so we can focus our time on creativity, problem-solving and impact. We don’t want to use AI to cut corners - it’s about smart usage that makes space for the work that really matters. Our intention is to be thoughtful about how we use AI. We treat its outputs as a starting point, not the final answer, and we take care to use it responsibly - especially given the trust families place in Yoto.\nWe don’t expect everyone to be an AI expert, but we do expect people to be curious, to experiment, and to keep improving how they work. If you prefer to do everything manually, you might find our pace and expectations challenging.\nThe magic at Yoto comes from people working here, not their prompts. AI should help us move faster, not change what makes working here great.\n What you can expect from Yoto: \n\nFlexibility:\n\nHybrid working - At least\n1 day a week on average in our central London office. You are welcome and encouraged to come in more than this. How you meet the minimum expectation is up to you, to ensure you're happy and productive in your role whilst also getting that vital face time with your colleagues. 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.\n\nFinancial:\n\nReceive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.\n\nHealth & Wellness:\n\nPrivate Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy. Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy. Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.\n\nTime Off:\n\n25 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. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.\n\nHelping Families:\n\nVariety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave. Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.\n\nPeople & Planet:\n\nUp to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.\n\nFun Perks:\n\nYou receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!\n\n Equity and Diversity \nAt 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.\nWe're committed to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment where all individuals, regardless of their background, 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.\nWe don’t just embrace differences - we celebrate them. We share audio content from a vibrant and diverse community of creators (\n\ncheck out our DEI selection\n\n), and we are building a team that reflects that same diversity. We invite candidates from all walks of life to explore opportunities with us and join a company that champions flexibility, equity, and inclusion.\n\nTake a look at our website for more information on our approach to People and Planet\n\n.\nPlease only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (\ncareers.yotoplay.com\nor\ncareers.yotoplay.com/en\n). 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