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Job information Staff Front End Engineer from the Company Yoto, this latest Staff Front End Engineer job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in London NC located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Staff field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

We're looking for a Staff Front-End 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 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.
• 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 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 Account Management Team

The Account Management team handles the engineering details for all payments and post-purchase needs for Yoto customers, Yoto Club members, and B2B partner accounts. The Account Management team's remit covers everything around purchases, deliveries, partner reporting, and subscription management. This team's long term roadmap has, among other things, a focus on cost effective scaling of our ecommerce and subscription platforms, more streamlined on-the-go-purchasing, and automating order/delivery based customer support queries.

This is a new team so as you can guess there's a lot of space to innovate! We're starting out with a small team of 3 engineers with ambitions to grow the team over time. The team will work closely with our existing Core Web team, together ensuring all the front-end components are accessible, performant, and scalable. This role will report into the Account Management Team's Tech Lead Manager.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the design and development for frontend aspects for our Account Management team, identifying and driving innovation when necessary.

• Make significant code contributions to our system through their design and implementation.

• Serve as a technical authority and mentor for engineers within the team and the community of practice, providing guidance on best practices for software design, delivery, and scalability.

• Ensure code contributions are of high quality, performance, and adhere to coding standards.

• Help bring together frontend engineers across the company to increase knowledge sharing, reduce complexity, and improve collaboration and connected thinking.

• Work closely with senior leadership in technology, product, and throughout the entire business to provide transparency in ongoing and future work with a continual eye on where we need to be in the long term.

What you'll need to bring:

• 8+ years of experience in designing and building commercial web applications (with at least 1 year at a “senior+” level).

• Passion about intuitive web and ecommerce UI/UX and pride in the front end of the front end.

• Past experience working in a high throughput ecommerce environment (Shopify, BigCommerce, etc), preferably direct-to-customer.

• Proficiency with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, web fundamentals, an appreciation for the core craft of HTML, Javascript, CSS, A11Y, P13N, and best practices for the modern web works.

• Proficiency with JAMStack and MACH architectures; Headless CMS, Pattern Library, Front End Frameworks, Testing Libraries, etc.

• Proficiency with web performance tracking and improvement (LCP, CLS, etc) and a strong security mindset (OWASP Top 10, etc); highly adept at tackling problems with both in mind

• Strong organisational skills and energy for sprint management, planning and preparing tasks.

• Competent communicator, help and be helped, can discuss solutions with both a technical and non-technical audience.

• An ability to understand and contribute towards software architecture and consider design decisions; you know what good looks like when it comes to building great software products.

• Open-minded and a natural cross functional collaborator (design, dev, QA, backend, etc). Ready to share your thoughts on the web development ecosystem.

Salary:£88,000 - £100,000 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 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.

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Closed Date : 2025-03-19