Technical Lead II

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About HubSpot & the Messaging Platform Group:

HubSpot is on a mission to help millions of organizations grow better. The Messaging Platform Group is at the heart of this mission building the critical infrastructure and reusable components that power messaging across the entire HubSpot product suite. We handle a massive scale facilitating billions of email sends monthly for our flagship email marketing product and enabling seamless communication for customers who connect their personal email inboxes to our CRM. In the past years weve expanded our capabilities to include WhatsApp and SMS empowering businesses to connect with their customers on their preferred channels.

Delivering reliable and scalable messaging solutions requires deep expertise and a collaborative spirit. Youll join a talented team of engineers product managers designers and deliverability experts dedicated to building a platform our customers trust implicitly.

About the Connected Email Integrations Team:

Step into the core of HubSpots 1:1 email strategy with the Connected Email Integrations team! We are the engine that powers the connection of personal inboxes like Gmail and Outlook to our customers CRM a critical function for Sales Hub and Service Hub users. Our work directly enables businesses to manage their customer communications seamlessly within HubSpot. Currently supporting over 1.7 million connected inboxes we are focused on scaling this further while tackling exciting challenges. Youll help us connect upmarket customers to secure environments kickstart new customer journeys with comprehensive historical email sync and ensure rocksolid 1:1 email deliverability. Our mission is to provide a flawless integrationasaservice for internal HubSpot product teams guaranteeing that every email is handled with maximum reliability and efficiency.

The Opportunity: Technical Lead II

As a Technical Lead II on the Connected Email Integrations team you will be a playercoach leading a dedicated team of approximately 35 engineers. You are first and foremost a skilled and passionate engineer who thrives on building and creating. This role offers a unique blend of handson technical contribution (approximately 75% of your time) and technical leadership responsibilities (25%) where youll guide your team in designing developing and maintaining highquality scalable and reliable integration solutions.

What Youll Do:

• Technical Excellence & Handson Development:
• Design develop test deploy and maintain robust backend services and APIs for email integrations primarily using Java Kafka HBase and MySQL.
• Tackle complex technical challenges such as enhancing security for upmarket customer integrations optimizing email synchronization and ensuring high deliverability rates for 1:1 emails.
• Champion best practices in software development including code quality testing CI/CD and observability.
• Dive deep into architectural decisions contribute significantly to the codebase and lead by example in technical execution.
• Product & Team Leadership:
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers Designers and other Technical Leads to define a compelling vision and challenging goals for your team aligned with the needs of Sales Hub and Service Hub.
• Actively contribute to shaping the product direction and strategy for connected email integrations bringing your technical expertise and insights to the forefront.
• Proactively own and improve your teams operational health including oncall processes system reliability (for 1.7M inboxes and growing) and overall product quality. Ensure processes are lean effective and support rapid reliable delivery.
• Partner with other Tech Leads to resolve crossteam dependencies and drive broader technical initiatives within the Messaging Platform Group.
• Lead and Mentor: Guide and mentor a team of software engineers fostering an environment of autonomy psychological safety and continuous learning. Youll be actively involved in their growth helping them tackle increasingly complex challenges and develop into senior engineers future Tech Leads and Staff Engineers.
• Performance & Growth:
• Evaluate the performance of your team members providing constructive feedback coaching and identifying learning opportunities to support their career progression.

Were Looking For Someone Who:

• Is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex scalable backend systems ideally with experience in email systems or highvolume integrations.
• Has some prior experience leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior engineers.
• Possesses strong proficiency in Java Kafka HBase and MySQL and experience with distributed systems APIs and cloud platforms.
• Is passionate about writing clean maintainable and welltested code and enjoys code reviews and technical discussions.
• Excels at fostering an inclusive team environment that encourages autonomy psychological safety and open communication.
• Sets a high bar for system reliability and operational excellence with experience in managing oncall rotations and incident response for critical services.
• Understands the value of building diverse teams and actively champions Diversity Inclusion and Belonging.
• Is an excellent communicator and collaborator able to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Is eager to learn and adapt and enjoys coaching others while also being open to learning from them.

Cash compensation range:USD Annually

This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpots compensation philosophy.

The cash compensation above includes base salary ontarget commission for employees in eligible roles and annual bonus targets under HubSpots bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpots equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate including their skills experience qualifications and other jobrelated reasons.

We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about whats included in total compensation check out some of the benefits and perks HubSpot offers to help employees grow better.

At HubSpot fair compensation practices isnt just about checking off the box for legal compliance. Its about living out our value of transparency with our employees candidates and community.

Cash compensation range:USD Annually

This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpots compensation philosophy.

The cash compensation above includes base salary ontarget commission for employees in eligible roles and annual bonus targets under HubSpots bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpots equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate including their skills experience qualifications and other jobrelated reasons.

We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about whats included in total compensation check out some of the benefits and perks HubSpot offers to help employees grow better.

At HubSpot fair compensation practices isnt just about checking off the box for legal compliance. Its about living out our value of transparency with our employees candidates and community.