Principal Software Engineer Commerce

Cambridge, MA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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About the Team

Commerce Hub is building the backbone for businesses to sell bill get paid and manage revenue inside HubSpot. Our systems handle billions of dollars in transactions for our customers so correctness clarity and predictability matter. Were creating an AI-first commerce platform thats deeply integrated with HubSpots CRM - simple consistent and extensible across every part of the seller and buyer experience.

About the Role

Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help shape the technical future of Commerce Hub. This is a very hands-on role. Youll write code dive into services review tough designs debug messy systems and directly own the architecture behind some of the most critical surfaces in CPQ Billing Payments and Revenue OS.

What Youll Do

Build a simple consistent extensible platform

Shape the technical roadmap across CPQ Billing and Payments with strong opinionated patterns.
Define and evolve core domain models so pricing products contracts invoices and payments behave predictably everywhere.
Create frameworks that make the platform easy to extend without adding complexity.

Be a deeply hands-on high-leverage builder

Write code regularly. Lead design reviews and build high-impact systems end-to-end.
Own large multi-team initiatives that span CPQ Billing and Payments.
Take prototypes to production at scale.

Lead architectural direction

Set patterns for extensibility contract boundaries financial correctness event-driven consistency and how AI/agents safely interact with commerce objects.
Push for simplicity where the domain wants to get complicated and consistency where surfaces can drift.

Partner deeply with product leadership

Influence product strategy across CPQ Buyer Portal and Revenue OS.
Help teams make clear tradeoffs between speed correctness compliance and long-term platform health.

Raise the bar across the org

Mentor senior engineers and tech leads.
Drive thoughtful design decisions and guide learnings from incidents and large migrations.
Help teams align on patterns that reduce complexity and increase reliability.

What You Bring

Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems with strict correctness requirements.
Background working with complex state machines financial flows or high-integrity data models.
Strong architectural instincts with a bias toward simplicity consistency and well-defined boundaries.
The ability to work horizontally across many teams and get alignment on platform patterns.
A habit of turning ambiguity into clear plans and working softwareand staying hands-on every step of the way.

Pay & Benefits

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:

$313800$502080 USD

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About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software integrations and resources customers need to connect marketing sales and service. HubSpots connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.

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POS-9034About the TeamCommerce Hub is building the backbone for businesses to sell bill get paid and manage revenue inside HubSpot. Our systems handle billions of dollars in transactions for our customers so correctness clarity and predictability matter. Were creating an AI-first commerce platform t...