HubSpot

Technical Lead II

HubSpot

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $191,100 - $305,800 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoHBaseJavaKafkaMicroservicesMySQLOpen SourceSpark

About the role

  • Technical Excellence & Hands-on 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 team’s operational health, including on-call 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 cross-team dependencies and drive broader technical initiatives within the Messaging Platform Group.
  • Lead and Mentor: Guide and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering autonomy and psychological safety.
  • Performance & Growth: Evaluate the performance of your team members, providing constructive feedback, coaching, and identifying learning opportunities to support their career progression.

Requirements

  • Experienced Senior Software Engineer with track record delivering complex, scalable backend systems, ideally with email systems or high-volume integrations
  • Some prior experience leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior engineers
  • Proficiency in Java, Kafka, HBase and MySQL; experience with distributed systems, APIs, and cloud platforms
  • Passion for clean, maintainable, well-tested code; enjoys code reviews and technical discussions
  • Ability to foster an inclusive team environment with autonomy, psychological safety, and open communication
  • Sets a high bar for system reliability and on-call incident management
  • Champions Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Eager to learn and coach others while also learning from them