Senior Backend Engineer - Scoring & Computation Engine (m/f/d)

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?

You will build the core engine that powers our rankings and benchmarks for hospitals worldwide: a versioned, fully reproducible computation layer that transforms harmonized metrics into comparable scores.

The focus of this role is algorithmic computation, mathematical correctness, and system reproducibility—web application development is a limited aspect of this system. As the senior technical owner for this area, you will design how scoring definitions, formula trees, category mappings, and peer-group logic are modeled as data and executed deterministically over time.

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• Degree: Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.

• Experience: 5+ years in backend software engineering building computation engines, rules platforms, or complex data-intensive backend systems; including a sustained period within one organization seeing a core system through build → launch → iteration.

• Domain Knowledge: Healthcare or benchmarking domain experience is a plus (basic understanding of healthcare KPIs, quality metrics, or benchmarking concepts; familiarity with hospital rating systems, medical classification, or complex scoring methodologies is especially valuable).

• Mindset: Strong analytical and mathematical mindset, with a proven ability to translate complex domain logic and formulas into clean, deterministic software abstractions.

• Languages: Fluent in English, German is a plus.

• Working Style: Highly structured, detail-oriented, and motivated to collaborate closely with methodology experts, analysts, and cross-functional engineers in an international environment.