Staff Tech Lead, AI-Driven Marketing Studio (Remote)

hubspotjobs; Greater London; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Marketing Studio Intelligence to guide a small team of engineers, shape AI-powered backend systems, and work closely with Product and UX. The role is remote within the UK, with collaboration across Marketing Studio, CRM data, and campaign platforms.

You will stay hands-on with production Java code while driving architectural decisions, governance, and delivery on highest-priority technical challenges.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating backend software systems in production environments.
• Strong Java development skills and experience building production grade backend services, as well as Kafka, MySQL or comparable backend technologies.
• Experience technically leading a small engineering team while remaining an active contributor to the codebase.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of engineers, setting technical direction and delivering against shared product and engineering goals.
• Design, build, and evolve backend services powering campaign integrations, measurement, automation, and intelligent capabilities across Marketing Studio.
• Stay hands-on with development, contributing production quality Java code and addressing the team’s top technical challenges.
• Lead technical design for integrations between Marketing Studio, HubSpot campaign systems, marketing assets, CRM data, and other platform capabilities.
• Build scalable systems that support campaign performance reporting, attribution, analytics, and intelligent recommendations.
• Shape backend capabilities for AI powered experiences using campaign context, CRM data, and engagement history.
• Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans and help engineers navigate architecture decisions, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance.
• Partner with Product and UX to translate customer problems into technical approaches balancing speed, quality, and long-term health.
• Drive alignment across engineering teams when work spans shared services, campaign infrastructure, data systems, integrations, or Studio platform capabilities.

Skills

Java

Backend systems

Team leadership

Product collaboration

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Job description

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Marketing Studio Intelligence to guide a small team of engineers, shape AI-powered backend systems, and work closely with Product and UX. The role is remote within the UK, with collaboration across Marketing Studio, CRM data, and campaign platforms.

You will stay hands-on with production Java code while driving architectural decisions, governance, and delivery on highest-priority technical challenges.