Technical Lead, Backend, Growth Acquisition

Join HubSpot as a Technical Lead, Backend on the Growth Acquisition team

At HubSpot, were committed to building products that enable millions of businesses to grow better. We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to join our Backend Engineering team within the Growth Acquisition group.

In this role, you will lead efforts to design and implement scalable backend services that drive user acquisition and support HubSpots ambitious growth goals. You will collaborate closely with a dynamic team of engineers, marketers, and product specialists to innovate and optimize the systems that power our acquisition strategies.As a Technical Lead, you will provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and play a crucial role in the strategic decision-making process, ensuring our backend technologies meet the demands of a rapidly changing market.If you have a strategic mindset, a passion for backend technologies, and a keen interest in driving user growth, we would love to have you on our team to contribute to HubSpots growth journey.

Key Expectations for Technical Lead:

• A Tech Lead is a player-coach responsible for leading a small team.
• They are recognized as high-performing engineers.
• They collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and other Tech Leads in their family to define and share relevant, compelling, and challenging goals for their team.
• They work across teams with other TLs to resolve cross-team issues.
• They proactively take ownership of their teams on-call health and product reliability and quality.
• They have an interest and opinion in the direction of the product. They do not defer this over to the PM or PD or others. Instead, they are an active member of the teams leadership triad, co-setting the direction for the team.
• They proactively look to grow the members of their team to enable them to take on harder and harder tasks.
• They are creating and fostering diverse teams and an inclusive culture.

Were looking for:

• A strong senior engineer with experience leading small teams using Java
• Open to experimentation and new ways of doing things. Values a working solution much more highly than the optimal solution.
• A customer-centric attitude and someone who can develop opinions about the HubSpot product
• An understanding of building reliable systems in a complex architectural space

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please dont hesitate to apply — wed love to hear from you.

If you need accommodations or assistance due to a disability, please reach out to us using this form. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At HubSpot, we value both flexibility and connection. Whether youre a Remote employee, or work from the Office, we want you to start your journey here by building strong connections with your team and peers.

If you are joining our Engineering team in a full-time role, you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding. If you join our broader Product team, youll also attend other in-person events such as HubSpots annual PEER week, your Product Group Summit, and other in-person gatherings to continue building on those connections.

If you require an accommodation due to travel limitations or other reasons, please inform your recruiter during the hiring process. We are committed to supporting candidates who may need alternative arrangements.

Germany Applicants: (m/f/d) - link to HubSpots Career Diversity page here.

India Applicants: link to HubSpot Indias equal opportunity policy here.

About HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides software and support to help businesses grow better. We build marketing, sales, service, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers needs at any stage of growth. Were also building a company culture that empowers people to do their best work. If that sounds like something youd like to be part of, wed love to hear from you.

You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 5M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, HubSpot was named the #2 Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2022 and has been recognized for its award-winning culture by Great Place to Work, Comparably, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more.

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, HubSpot was founded in 2006. Today, thousands of employees across the globe work remotely and in HubSpot offices. Visit our careers website to learn more about the culture and opportunities at HubSpot.

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