We’re looking for a mid-level Android Engineer to help us to continually build the Yoto Android app.

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 Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like this one.

• Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023.
• 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.
• Second fastest growing tech company in the UK, in Deloitte Fast50 2023.
• Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020
• We’re 140+ 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 App Team

We look after the Yoto apps, building out new & exciting features to continually delight our customers. The apps are designed to support parents giving them access to their whole library, enable them to make their own content and to set player settings. The apps are also available for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.We’re a team of 9 including QA, UX and a Product Manager, we’re focused and fast paced, working in a Kanban environment. The current developer split is 3 iOS developers, 2 Android developers and a team manager. 

We’re looking to level the number of Android developers with iOS. Everybody is encouraged to have a voice and influence the product direction. Our stack is Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Auth0, Okhttp, Retrofit, Moshi, Koin, Picasso, Glide, Lottie, Wiremock, Crashlytics, Firebase, Bugfender, Espresso UI tests

What you’ll be doing:

• Write clean and robust code following good development principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI)

• Use TDD incl. unit, integration and end-to-end tests and be prepared to write tests for all feature delivery

• Get involved in architecture, standards and tooling decisions

• Take part in researching, estimating and prioritising features for the roadmap

• Work with the Player OS and Platform teams to deliver features

What you’ll bring:

• 2+ years of experience of Android app development

• Native Android Kotlin development experience

• Understanding of Android app development design patterns and native Android SDKs
  

• Understanding of MVVM, MVP, MVC etc.

• Experience consuming 3rd party APIs and familiarity with standard authentication mechanisms (OAuth/Auth0)

• Ability to work in a fast paced scale-up environment

• Comfortable in contributing to discussions and presenting your solutions

We’re a small tech team so you’ll get a chance to play with plenty of different things all the time – bonus points for any experience or desire to dig into any of the following:

• Device testing in the cloud (Firebase, Bitrise or other)

• iOS development (Swift)

• Cloud based infrastructures (AWS), serverless development

• Experience with popular IoT protocols (RFID/NFC, Bluetooth/BLE, WiFi, MQTT)

• Android Auto

• Understanding responsive design principles, speed optimisation techniques, web standards, accessibility

• Media streaming and audio processing (codecs, live streaming, normalisation, etc)

Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 based on experience.

What you can expect from Yoto:

• Flexibility: 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 or twice a month. 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.
• Financial: Generous share option programme so you’ll be invested in Yoto’s success. Receive 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.
• Health & Wellness: Private 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.
• 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. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.
• Helping Families: Variety 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.
• 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!

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.

Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (careers.yotoplay.com or careers.yotoplay.com/en). All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.