Job Overview
Location
Hamburg or Berlin
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Science
Date Posted
July 4, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead and develop a cross-functional engineering team focused on Statista’s Acquisition & Registration domain, including frontend, backend, and QA engineers, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
- • Own the engineering strategy and delivery for services enabling user discovery, sign-up, purchase, and conversion on Statista’s platform, directly impacting lead generation and revenue growth.
- • Partner with Product Management to execute the product roadmap, aligning business priorities with technical execution while managing trade-offs and ensuring predictable delivery.
- • Design, evolve, and modernize the technical architecture for acquisition and registration systems, including sign-up flows, checkout processes, payment integrations, product plans, upgrades, and migration of legacy PHP-based systems to a modern stack.
- • Drive adoption of AI-native engineering practices by integrating agentic development workflows, applying AI tools to enhance software quality, and establishing standards for AI-assisted development.
- • Remain hands-on in technical decision-making, contributing to code reviews, architecture design, and system improvements while championing best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- • Utilize AWS, React, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Unleash, and Jira to build, monitor, and optimize scalable, reliable services supporting global user acquisition and conversion.
- • Collaborate across departments to ensure seamless integration of engineering solutions with product, marketing, and business goals, maintaining alignment on technical and business KPIs.
- • Mentor engineers through coaching and career development, promoting continuous learning and technical growth within the team.
- • Ensure system reliability and scalability by implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response protocols using Datadog and other observability tools.
- • Lead technical initiatives to modernize legacy PHP systems, reducing technical debt and improving maintainability, performance, and security of core acquisition and registration services.
- • Promote a culture of innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging AI-powered engineering tools to accelerate development cycles and improve software delivery outcomes.
- • Maintain strong stakeholder communication with product, marketing, and business teams to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver measurable impact.
- • Support international collaboration within Statista’s global engineering organization, ensuring alignment across offices in Hamburg, Berlin, London, New York, and Tokyo.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10+ years of software engineering experience in cloud-native environments, including experience leading and developing engineering teams
- • Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Unleash, Jira, and experience working with PHP-based legacy systems
- • Proven experience designing scalable software architectures and modernizing legacy applications
- • Hands-on experience using AI-powered engineering tools and agentic development practices to improve software delivery
- • Strong stakeholder management, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to balance business priorities and technical decisions
- • Excellent written and spoken English
🏖️ Benefits
- • Work from abroad up to 30 calendar days a year
- • Hybrid work and flex-time
- • International team and social events
- • Subsidized urban mobility and access to fitness and wellness options
- • Free access to Langdock and all its amazing functionalities
- • Career & training opportunities
- • Attractive locations and modern offices
- • Mental health support with OpenUp
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About Statista GmbH
Statista GmbH is a German company that aggregates market and consumer data from over 22,500 sources, providing statistics, forecasts, industry reports and survey results across 170 industries and 150 countries. Its online platform hosts more than one million statistics and 80,000 dossiers, enabling businesses, researchers and media to access quantitative insights through charts, tables and infographics. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Hamburg, the company also offers Statista R, a research and analysis service for corporate clients, and maintains offices in New York, London and Singapore.
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