Technical Lead, Permissions Management, Backend

HubSpot

full-time

Posted on: 7/12/2025

Location: Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $165,500 - $248,300 per year

Senior

Distributed SystemsGoJava

About the role

Own and deliver backend projects, leading by example with hands-on Java development.
Mentor teammates and foster a positive, inclusive, and learning-first environment.
Work cross-functionally with engineering and product partners across HubSpot.
Design, build, and support performant, secure, and scalable systems.
Drive quality in everything we ship, from planning and design through testing and deployment.
Overhauling our permissions model to handle more granularity and a higher volume — empowering teams to move faster, at scale.
Making permissions self-service, so our engineers and customers save time and effort.
Laying the foundations to weave AI into permissions for smarter, faster processes.
Collaborating closely with both infrastructure and product teams — company-wide impact.

Strong senior backend engineer (Java experience required) with formal leadership on smaller teams, especially in critical or challenging systems.
Ownership mindset, collaborative, and able to figure things out in a fast-moving environment.
Consistently ships reliable, performant, well-tested code.
Thirst for technical challenges and distributed systems.
Ability to foster autonomy, psychological safety, and learning on teams.
Enjoys mentoring and coaching — and is open to learning from others too.
Customer-centric mindset, shaping insights that help improve the HubSpot platform.
Excited by the chance to impact all of HubSpot’s engineers, and set the standard on a tier 1, business-critical system.