Director of Engineering - API & Ecosystems

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?

The role

We are seeking a Director Engineering API & Ecosystems to lead the development of a state-of-the-art API platform, which will be launched as a new business segment.

In this role you will be responsible for defining the technology vision, building scalable and high-performance API products, and building and leading a small but highly skilled engineering team. As the key technical leader, you will drive both the Product and Engineering efforts, ensuring that our platform is robust, secure, and widely adopted by customers.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in API development, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning, who is also passionate about building scalable businesses. You will work closely with leadership and the business responsible to align technical strategy with business goals. In a team setting with the latter, you will shape the future of API-driven data products within Statista.

Your Job

Technical & Product Leadership

• Define the architecture and roadmap for a best-in-class API platform
• Drive best practices in API development, infrastructure management, and security
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of our API services
• Develop and operate product services as well as ideate and prototype new off-platform solutions (technology push) that clients love and are willing to pay for
• Customer API for accessing Statista data and services
• Solutions for integration of Statista data/services in 3rd party ecosystems
• Individual solutions for large enterprise customers
• Solution consulting and sales engineering with new customers
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Strong leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder management skills
• Bias for action, strong collaboration capabilities & team spirit
• Quality assurance for a best-in-class API platform
  
  

Team Leadership

• Develop and hire a high-performing tech team for the new business segment
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team
• Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and collaboration
• Work cross-functionally to successfully manage dependencies with other departments
  
  

Your Skills

• Experience with large-scale external API solutions
• Expertise in search and GenAI use cases (supporting LLM deployment and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows)
• Strong understanding of authentication, security, and billing models for API products
• Experience with API metering, analytics, and customer usage tracking
• Inspiring tech leader with strong street credibility for effective, cloud-native software engineering
• Strong business acumen to identify and assess revenue potential of technical solutions
• Strong communication skills supporting Sales team to win customers with technical expertise and the right trade-off between openness to customer needs and realistic expectation management
• Ability to understand and navigate very different tech stack environments (as required by customers or 3rd party ecosystems)
• Familiar with the Statista backend tech stack: aws, GitHub, Java, Typescript, PHP, datadog
• Experience in similar rapid growth environments (b2b), serving large tech-heavy customers that often are leaders in their respective segment
• Good judgment on when to deliver top quality and when to deliver quick& dirty
  
  

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 10 days a year (up to 30 if your family lives abroad)
• Hybrid work and flex-time
• International team and social events
• Career & training opportunities
• Attractive locations and modern offices
• Mental health support by Fürstenberg Institute
  
  

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