Senior Backend Engineer, Data Pipelines & AI (Kotlin/Python)

Meyandy LLC; Germany (OH); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work and flex-time

International team and social events

Career & training opportunities

Modern offices

Mental health support

Job summary

Statista is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain backend services in Kotlin and Python. You will craft scalable event-driven architectures connecting internal systems with CDPs and downstream channels, enabling reliable data flows for campaigns and analytics.

The role emphasizes collaboration with marketing, data, product and platform teams, with focus on reliability, security, and observability across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Java/Kotlin and Python.
• Strong database knowledge (relational and non-relational).
• Experience designing scalable backend systems.
• Experience with AWS and Kafka.
• Nice to have CDP/MarTech integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in Kotlin and Python.
• Create scalable event-driven architectures and data pipelines.
• Ensure data accuracy and timeliness for campaigns and analytics.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, data and platform teams.
• Promote best practices, testing, CI/CD, and observability.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Python

Databases

Event-driven design

AWS

Kafka

Tools

Kafka

Snowflake

BigQuery

Amazon Redshift

AWS

Job description

Statista is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain backend services in Kotlin and Python. You will craft scalable event-driven architectures connecting internal systems with CDPs and downstream channels, enabling reliable data flows for campaigns and analytics.

The role emphasizes collaboration with marketing, data, product and platform teams, with focus on reliability, security, and observability across the lifecycle.