Senior Software Engineer - GTM

Statista GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
24 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) PHP (Programming Language) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services BigQuery Cloud Computing Software Quality Computer Programming Continuous Integration Customer Data Management Python (Programming Language) Productivity Software
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Software Tools Cloud Services Salesforce.Com Software Engineering Data Streaming Data Logging Large Language Models Snowflake Backend Kotlin Event Driven Architecture Apache Kafka Non-relational Database Front End Software Development Amazon Redshift

Job description

  • Take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining backend services in Kotlin, PHP, and Python to support user data flows.
  • Design and optimize scalable event-driven architectures and pipelines connecting internal systems with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and downstream marketing channels.
  • Build reliable, high-performance processes for collecting, transforming, and activating user data, ensuring accuracy and timeliness for campaigns and analytics.
  • Drive technical design decisions, mentor engineers, and promote engineering best practices across the team.
  • Collaborate closely with marketing, data, product, and platform teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Ensure scalability, reliability, security, and observability through monitoring, logging, testing, and proactive improvements.
  • Champion engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle, including architecture, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and maintenance.
  • Open-minded about working across different technologies, including frontend development and monolithic applications, based on business needs.
  • Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day software development to improve productivity and code quality.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
  • Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, and Python.
  • Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
  • Experience designing scalable backend systems and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
  • Experience working with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and the MarTech ecosystem (e.g. Braze, Salesforce, Segment, Hightouch, etc.).
  • Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Amazon Redshift.
  • (Big plus) Experience designing and building AI-powered workflows, including AI agents, LLM integrations, or developer productivity tools.

About the company

At Statista, we’re all about facts and data, for we are the world’s leading business data platform. By providing reliable and easy-to-use data as well as various data analytics products and services, we empower people worldwide to make fact-based decisions.

Founded in Hamburg in 2007, we have quickly grown into a global company with offices in major cities such as London, New York, Berlin and Tokyo. And we still have a lot of plans. Our constant growth does not only prove our success, but also keeps creating new development and career opportunities for our employees.

We value and celebrate our diverse culture. You are welcome here for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or whether you prefer bar graphs to pie charts. Your story matters - keep writing it as part of our team., In addition to our great team, culture, and our shared goal of empowering people with data, there are many other things that make Statista a great place to work! Join us and benefit from:

  • 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

Some of the benefits listed here apply only to the German entity and to Junior-level roles or above.

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