Staff Tech Lead, AI Marketing Studio Intelligence

Hubspot; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Marketing Studio Intelligence in London. You will lead a small engineering team, shape backend services powering campaign integrations and AI-powered experiences, and contribute hands-on to production Java code.

You will collaborate with Product and UX to translate customer problems into scalable technical solutions while balancing speed, quality, and long-term system health. Flexible remote/office options are available.

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 leading a small engineering team while remaining an active contributor to the codebase.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers and helping others grow their technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of 2 engineers, setting technical direction and helping the team deliver against shared product and engineering goals.
• Design, build, and evolve backend services that power campaign integrations, measurement, automation, and intelligent capabilities across Marketing Studio.
• Stay hands on with development, contributing production quality Java code and working directly on the team's most important 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.
• Help shape backend capabilities for AI powered experiences that use campaign context, CRM data, and engagement history to generate insights and recommendations.
• Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans and help engineers navigate architecture decisions, dependencies, tradeoffs, and delivery risks.
• Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, feedback, and day to day technical guidance.
• Partner with Product and UX to shape priorities and translate customer problems into technical approaches that balance speed, quality, and long term system health.
• Drive alignment across engineering teams when work spans shared services, campaign infrastructure, data systems, integrations, or Studio platform capabilities.

Skills

Java development

Backend design

Team leadership

AI/ML integration

Product empathy

Communication

System scalability

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Job description

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Marketing Studio Intelligence in London. You will lead a small engineering team, shape backend services powering campaign integrations and AI-powered experiences, and contribute hands-on to production Java code.

You will collaborate with Product and UX to translate customer problems into scalable technical solutions while balancing speed, quality, and long-term system health. Flexible remote/office options are available.