Senior Software Engineer - GTM (m/f/d)

Meyandy LLC; Germany (OH); On-site; 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

About us

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. Are you ready to join us?

Your role

Take ownership of designing, building, and maintaining backend services in Kotlin 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.

Your profile

• 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.

What we offer

• 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.

Position

Senior Software Engineer - GTM (m/f/d) — Statista, Hamburg or Berlin.