Full Stack Software Engineer

We're looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team to build and grow the Yoto Club product - crafting seamless, high-converting journeys that bring more families into the world of 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 also create Yoto Originals like Brain Bots.

• Voted 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.
• Ranked 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.
• Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast
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• Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020.
• We’re over 200 employees spread across the world.. 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!

Our Software Engineering team builds the products and platforms that connect families to Yoto - from the Core app kids use every day to the web experiences that bring new subscribers through the door. We're a team that values ownership, craft, and clear thinking. We work closely with Product and Design to ship things that genuinely matter to families, and we're not shy about proposing a better way when we see one.

This role sits within the Family Experience team, with a particular focus on our Yoto Club product - a fast-moving, high-impact area where engineering and product thinking go hand in hand.

• Own the full stack development of the Yoto Club product - from performant, accessible front-end experiences to robust back-end integrations, including payment infrastructure with Stripe.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and the Core app team to ship features that drive stability, conversion, and subscriber growth.
• Propose and document technical improvements to the stack using ADRs and RFCs, communicating change clearly to a broad engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Run experiments fast - design, build, and iterate with a bias toward learning and shipping.
• Bring a product mindset to every piece of work: thinking in user outcomes, conversion funnels, and web performance - not just code quality.
• Help shape how the team works in a startup environment - proactively spotting gaps, suggesting solutions, and going beyond the brief when it matters.

• Strong full stack web engineering skills, with proven experience owning features across front-end and back-end in a production environment.
• A track record of communicating technical decisions clearly - you've written ADRs, RFCs, or equivalent, and you can explain complex trade-offs to Product and Design without losing the room.
• A product-oriented mindset: you think about performance, stability, and conversion, not just feature completion.
• Comfort in a startup or scale-up environment - self-sufficient, adaptable, and energised by a broad remit.
• Experience running experiments and iterating quickly, with good judgement about when to go fast and when to slow down.
• A genuine curiosity about AI-assisted development - you actively use tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude to move faster and think better, and you have a clear sense of where they help and where human judgement matters more.

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

We think using AI to work smarter is part of the job. At 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…