Team Lead Search & API (m/f/d)

Statista GmbH

Jobbeschreibung

At Statista, we're all about facts and data, that's why 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 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.

At Statista 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 Team:

In the Product & IT department, we are responsible for providing our customers worldwide with an inspiring and reliable product. As the central product development department, we conceive, design, develop, and operate the statista.com platform as well as a selection of other tools used for internal processes. We are continuously developing them, which we achieve by working together and on an equal footing. We are proud of our high-performance tech stack, which provides the foundation for our digital products. Learn more at stackshare.io/statista.


  • You are accountable for delivery of our Search & API team. The team's responsibility is technical ownership of our onsite search and the customer facing API.
  • You are the people lead for a team of engineers. You are expected to enable them to be the most impactful they can be and iterating with them towards a high-performing team. You will be responsible for all aspects of their professional development.
  • Our onsite search is the most crucial interaction point of our customers to discover our broad variety of content types, e.g. statistics or reports. You and the team will constantly improve our search to satisfy the user needs for information.
  • Additional our API allows paying customers to integrate our data into their tools and processes

  • Leadership experience and good communication skills
  • Track-record of building high-performing teams
  • Strong stakeholder-management skills
  • Hands-on mentality
  • Experience with JVM-based languages (or Rust), search engines and AWS (CDK)
  • Background in an information retrieval & filtering (e.g., search, recommendation, AI) environment

  • High level of autonomy
  • Statista University - extensive training offer and individual coaching
  • Dynamic, international team
  • Office located directly within the city center
  • Deutschland-Ticket Support
  • Visa Support
  • Sabbatical
  • Flextime
  • Hybrid Work
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