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Director of Engineering - API & Ecosystems
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[Hiring] Director of Engineering - API & Ecosystems @Statista
Apr 01, 2025 - Statista is hiring a remote Director of Engineering - API & Ecosystems. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Germany.
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Role Description
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.
- Define the technology vision, building scalable and high-performance API products
- Build and lead a small but highly skilled engineering team
- Drive both the Product and Engineering efforts
- Ensure 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, 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
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
Benefits
- 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
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
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Germany
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 01, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Germany |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
