Technical Lead I, Backend

HubSpot, Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead a team focused on building solutions that enhance customer experience. The ideal candidate has substantial Java experience, enjoys mentoring, and is capable of facilitating cross-department collaboration. This role offers the opportunity to drive technical direction and experiment rapidly in a creative environment. You'll support small businesses by improving usability and onboarding to enable them to leverage the platform effectively.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mentoring opportunities

Collaboration with multiple teams

Qualifications

• Strong senior backend engineer with Java experience and leadership on small teams.
• Ability to take ownership and work collaboratively with product partners.
• Interest in learning new technologies and external integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers focused on autonomy and experimentation.
• Set technical direction and build alongside the team.
• Collaborate across departments to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Mentor engineers and shape a culture of curiosity and ownership.

Skills

Senior backend engineering

Java experience

Mentoring and coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving skills

UX understanding

Job description

Job Description

• Lead a team of engineers where autonomy, flexibility, and experimentation are core values.
• Spend ~60% of your time hands‑on - setting technical direction, prototyping, and building alongside the team.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders across HubSpot to identify opportunities and ship high‑impact solutions.
• Guide the team through rapid iteration cycles, including building MVPs, testing hypotheses, and pivoting based on learnings.
• Mentor and grow engineers, helping shape a culture rooted in curiosity, ownership, and customer empathy.
• Collaborate cross‑company with engineering, product, design, marketing, and sales to bring new ideas to life.
• Help our smallest customers succeed by shipping improvements that make HubSpot easier to adopt and more delightful to use.
• Implement and run experiments that generate insights into user behaviour, onboarding success, and early lifecycle value.
• Gain broad exposure to how HubSpot functions as a business and how we serve different customer segments.

  Is a strong senior backend engineer (Java experience required) with leadership experience on smaller teams, especially in critical or challenging systems.

• Takes end‑to‑end ownership, works collaboratively with product partners, and can simplify complex problems into user‑friendly solutions.
• Consistently ships reliable, performant, well‑tested code, even when juggling competing priorities.
• Has an interest in external integrations, lightweight apps, or consumer‑style experiences - and enjoys learning new technologies quickly.
• Knows how to foster autonomy, psychological safety, and strong product‑engineering partnership within a team.
• Cares deeply about intuitive UX and helping customers experience value as quickly as possible.
• Enjoys mentoring and coaching, and loves learning from teammates across disciplines.
• Puts the customer at the centre, shaping insights that help improve the HubSpot platform

  At HubSpot, we're on a mission to help millions of organisations grow better. Our platform is used by businesses worldwide to manage their marketing, sales, service, and operations and under the hood, our product is built to be flexible, secure, and empowering for both our customers and our own engineering teams. We believe in autonomy, curiosity, and building a workplace where everyone can thrive., The Downmarket team focuses on delivering fast, intuitive, consumer‑grade product experiences that help small businesses get immediate value from HubSpot. We build lightweight, high‑leverage tools that meet users where they already work, including external integrations, add‑ons, and companion apps, all designed to help new customers onboard quickly, understand HubSpot's value, and grow with the platform.

• You'll join a highly entrepreneurial group that experiments rapidly, moves between ideas quickly, and often builds proof‑of‑concept solutions that may evolve, pivot, or get replaced as we learn. The work is creative, exploratory, and deeply cross‑functional, blending engineering, product, and growth thinking to shape entirely new entry points into HubSpot.
• At HubSpot, we value both flexibility and connection. Whether you're 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, you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in‑person onboarding. If you join our broader Product team, you'll also attend other in‑person events such as your Product Group Summit and other gatherings to continue building on those connections.
• HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI‑powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers. At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer‑obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow. We're building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too. Recognized globally for our award‑winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.