Senior iOS Engineer

Senior iOS Engineer

We're looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our Technology team to own and evolve the Yoto app experience that millions of families use to connect with their players, discover audio, and manage their kids' listening.

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
  50.

• 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!

The app is designed to support parents giving them access to their whole content library, enable them to make their own content, set player settings & remote control the Yoto player, play content on their phone and in the car, and purchase more content via our Discover hub in the app.

Our user base is expanding rapidly, and we aim to grow the team sustainably to scale our codebase and support new features while refining existing work. We are particularly committed to improving performance and stability, as evidenced by our excellent crash-free rate and App Store reviews. Our codebase is using Swift and we've been on a journey to migrate screens to SwiftUI.

We are constantly looking for ways to improve and modernise the codebase.

We’re looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to join our small, experienced team. We want someone who is product-oriented and cares about how people will use and interact with the software they're building.

You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of mobile at Yoto, with ample opportunities to influence our direction and growth. We are looking for engineers who prioritise quality and working in short feedback loops.

• Build and ship new high-quality features and improvements for the native iOS app, following best practices and platform guidelines.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver exceptional user experiences.

• Participate in code reviews, testing, and iterative improvements to maintain a high-quality and scalable codebase as we grow.

• Work in close collaboration with the Android team to develop features together.

• Contribute new ideas and engage in discussions regarding architecture, standards, and tooling.

• Use automation and AI-augmented tooling to work efficiently and keep your focus on the things that really matter.

• Act as a feature technical lead, taking ownership of complex projects from design through to delivery and coordinating effectively across product, design, iOS and Android.

• Help shape technical direction through architecture, standards and tooling, making pragmatic decisions and identifying risks, dependencies and trade-offs early.

• Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers through code reviews, technical discussions and knowledge sharing.

• Take a proactive, end-to-end approach to quality, including automated testing, and help raise engineering standards across the team.

• You care about the team shipping quality. You'll flag blockers, support others, and invest in shared quality.

• You possess strong communication…