Fullstack Engineer (m/f/d)

Statista Inc.; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 79,636 - 119,454; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from abroad up to 30 calendardays

Hybrid work and flex-time

International team and social events

Subsidized urban mobility

Langdock access

Career & training opportunities

Modern offices

Job summary

Statista, the world's leading business data platform, is seeking a backend engineer to design and build backend services in PHP (and TypeScript/Node where appropriate), owning features end-to-end from data model to API.

Design asynchronous, event-driven systems on AWS, optimize SQL across large data volumes, and contribute across the stack including the Nuxt/Vue frontend.

Qualifications

• Solid PHP experience; Laravel or Symfony is welcome.
• JavaScript / TypeScript across backend and frontend.
• Strong SQL: complex joins, aggregations, CTEs, performance-aware queries.
• Experience with cloud platforms; AWS ideally.
• Experience designing asynchronous / event-driven systems (EDA).

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services in PHP (and TypeScript/Node) end-to-end from data model to API.
• Design asynchronous, event-driven systems with queues, dead-letter queues, and retry policies.
• Write and optimize non-trivial SQL with multi-table joins and window functions.
• Operate services on AWS (ECS, S3, RDS, etc.) with monitoring and observability.
• Contribute across the stack including TypeScript backend and front-end touchpoints.

Skills

PHP experience

Laravel or Symfony

JavaScript/TypeScript

SQL skills

AWS

EDA design

Job description

At Statista, we all about facts and data, for we are the worlds 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.

Are you ready to join us?

Your Role

• Design and build backend services in PHP (and TypeScript/Node where it fits), owning features end-to-end from data model to API.

• Design asynchronous, event-driven systems and resilient architectures using patterns like message queues, dead-letter queues and retry policies.

• Write and optimize non-trivial SQL, multi-table joins, aggregations, CTEs and window functions, with an eye on how queries perform on real data volumes.

• Operate services on AWS (ECS, ECR, SQS, SES, S3, CloudWatch, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache) including monitoring and observability.

• Contribute across the stack where needed, including the TypeScript backend (Express / Node) and touching the Nuxt 3 / Vue 3 frontend.

Your Profile

• Solid PHP experience; relevant experience with Laravel or Symfony is equally welcome.

• JavaScript / TypeScript (TypeScript preferred). Used across the stack, on the backend (Express / Node) as well as the frontend.

• Strong SQL skills beyond the basics: complex joins, aggregations, CTEs and performance-aware querying.

• Experience with cloud platforms, AWS ideally

• Experience designing asynchronous / event-driven (EDA) systems (dead-letter queues, retry policies, etc.).

What we offer

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.