Technical Lead I, Backend

POS-17184

At HubSpot were on a mission to help millions of organisations grow better. Our platform is used by businesses worldwide to manage their marketing sales service and operations and under the hood our product is built to be flexible secure and empowering for both our customers and our own engineering teams. We believe in autonomy curiosity and building a workplace where everyone can thrive.

Technical Lead

Meet the Team: Downmarket

The Downmarket team focuses on delivering fast intuitive consumer-grade product experiences that help small businesses get immediate value from HubSpot. We build lightweight high-leverage tools that meet users where they already work including external integrations add-ons and companion apps all designed to help new customers onboard quickly understand HubSpots value and grow with the platform.

Youll join a highly entrepreneurial group that experiments rapidly moves between ideas quickly and often builds proof-of-concept solutions that may evolve pivot or get replaced as we learn. The work is creative exploratory and deeply cross-functional blending engineering product and growth thinking to shape entirely new entry points into HubSpot.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers where autonomy flexibility and experimentation are core values.
• Spend 60% of your time hands-on setting technical direction prototyping and building alongside the team.
• Collaborate with engineers product managers designers and stakeholders across HubSpot to identify opportunities and ship high-impact solutions.
• Guide the team through rapid iteration cycles including building MVPs testing hypotheses and pivoting based on learnings.
• Mentor and grow engineers helping shape a culture rooted in curiosity ownership and customer empathy.
• Collaborate cross-company with engineering product design marketing and sales to bring new ideas to life.
• Help our smallest customers succeed by shipping improvements that make HubSpot easier to adopt and more delightful to use.
• Implement and run experiments that generate insights into user behaviour onboarding success and early lifecycle value.
• Gain broad exposure to how HubSpot functions as a business and how we serve different customer segments.

Were looking for someone who:

• Is a strong senior backend engineer (Java experience required) with leadership experience on smaller teams especially in critical or challenging systems.
• Takes end-to-end ownership works collaboratively with product partners and can simplify complex problems into user-friendly solutions.
• Consistently ships reliable performant well-tested code even when juggling competing priorities.
• Has an interest in external integrations lightweight apps or consumer-style experiences and enjoys learning new technologies quickly.
• Knows how to foster autonomy psychological safety and strong product-engineering partnership within a team.
• Cares deeply about intuitive UX and helping customers experience value as quickly as possible.
• Enjoys mentoring and coaching and loves learning from teammates across disciplines.
• Puts the customer at the centre shaping insights that help improve the HubSpot platform