Engineering Manager - Data & Content Delivery (m/f/d) (Hamburg, Germany)

Engineering Manager - Data & Content Delivery (m/f/d)

Company Overview

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?Statista aims to empower people worldwide to make better and faster fact-based business decisions by providing a simple-to-use and affordable global business-data platform. Our innovative spirit is strengthened by an international and diverse team of over 1,100 employees representing more than 70 nations working at 8 office locations around the globe including our HQ in Hamburg, New York City, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Gurugram, North Sydney and Berlin.

Job Summary

As an Engineering Manager with a hands-on mindset, you will lead a cross-functional team of data and software engineers responsible for Statista's Data and Content Delivery domain — a key enabler of the existing Statista web platform and the growing Data-as-a-Service business. In close collaboration with a Product Manager, you'll be responsible for the single source of truth of Statista's data treasure and implement use cases of other engineering teams and data engineers. Together, you’ll shape the roadmap, empower the team, and deliver high-quality, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior data, infrastructure and backend engineers — creating a supportive environment where people can grow and do their best work
• Collaborate closely with Product and Data Production to define and deliver on a clear vision and roadmap
• Support the team in architectural and technical decision-making, while not being expected to contribute code regularly
• Drive engineering excellence and accountability for the stability, performance, and maintainability of the systems you own
• Lead and deliver migration projects — Statista has a long history of building internal data interfaces and APIs; you'll work to consolidate what’s still valuable and phase out the obsolete
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and partner with data engineers and architects to develop powerful and scalable internal interfaces and APIs

Requirements / Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional, product-oriented engineering teams
• Solid grasp of backend development, ideally with Java or Python, and both relational and NoSQL databases
• Solid understanding of data warehouse technologies and ETL pipelines
• Strong understanding of distributed system design, particularly microservice architectures
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset — you build strong relationships with senior engineers, product peers, other engineering managers, and various stakeholders
• Familiarity with building applications and infrastructure on AWS

Location

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Remote: False

Salary & 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 Perplexity Enterprise 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.