Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with proven e-commerce experience (Shopify, BigCommerce, etc) and/or payments handling (Stripe, Adyen, Square, etc) to guide us into the next phase of our global commerce platform.
About 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 LEGO, Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Sony. We also create Yoto Originals like this one.
- Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023.
- Second fastest growing tech company in the UK, in Deloitte Fast50 2023.
- Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020
- Winner in Good Housekeeping’s 2022 Parenting Awards.
- We’re 110+ employees spread across the UK, US and France.. and growing!
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 Purchasing Team
The Purchasing team handles the engineering details for all of Yoto’s commerce transactions. The Purchasing team’s remit extends from Shopify webhooks to recurring subscriptions to the internal tools that keeps sales flowing without issue for our customers.
This is a new team so there will be a lot of space to innovate! We’re starting out with a small team of 3 with ambitions to grow the team over time. The team will work closely with our existing Platform team, together ensuring all the server-side (or in our case, serverless) endpoints are accessible, performant, and scalable. This role reports into the Purchasing Team’s Tech Lead Manager.
What you’ll be doing:
- Work in a remote, asynchronous-first environment. Co-locating (typically at our London, King’s Cross office) at least once a month.
- Work using managed, serverless services in AWS (Lambda, IoT/MQTT, API Gateway, MongoDB Atlas, DynamoDb, S3)
- Code using a Node.JS stack - mainly TypeScript, with some JavaScript and React, in an automated test-first environment
- Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other key stakeholders to plan, execute, and deliver the next generation of our purchasing infrastructure
- Manage the tech you are co-responsible for - addressing cost, inconsistency, operational debt and code debt
- Own the creation, delivery and operation of scalable, fault tolerant (and in some cases eventually consistent) integrations with 3rd party SaaS software
- Design and implement reusable, highly performant solutions that can rapidly scale up and down to handle our peak loads
- Work in a environment that values software consistency and documentation-first development as core principles
- Keep a high engineering standard by applying and teaching key principles such as, consistency, single responsibility, the scout rule, and least privilege.
What you’ll need tobring:
- Deep understanding of the commerce (Shopify, BigCommerce, etc) or payments handling (Stripe, Adyen, Square, etc) world and proven experience with their event driven architectures. Bonus points for past experience working with subscription based products.
- Expert knowledge of TypeScript or Javascript (ES6 and ESM) and applying code craft and test-first coding
- Good understanding of NoSQL and traditional databases
- Good experience and understanding of AWS services, in particular APIs backed by Lambda
- High autonomy and accountability, with good presence for knowing when to collaborate or seek help
- Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, cost efficient architectures
Salary: £70,000 - £88,000 based on experience.We never want to miss out on speaking to great candidates, so please don't let our banding put you off getting in touch. You never know what might be in our future plan and how well you might fit!
What you can expect from us:
Hybrid working with a choice based approach - we would love you to come into the office as much as possible, with a minimum of once a month.
Generous share options - so you're invested in Yoto’s success
A Work from Anywhere policy that gives 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 parental leave policy.
Personal Learnerbly development budget of £200 per year (awarded after successful completion of your probation).
Your own Yoto player and starter pack of cards!
2x volunteer days a year.
A collaborative tech-focused creative environment.
Company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!
Equity and Diversity
At Yoto, our mission is to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. Our success is rooted in unwavering commitment to our core principles—Kids in Control, Helping Families, Building with Empathy, Embrace Difference, and Playfully Inquisitive.
At Yoto, flexible working and autonomy are key to us. 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 a diverse and 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.