Staff Technical Lead - AI-Driven Backend (Remote)

HubSpot; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 132,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for the Marketing Studio Intelligence group in Ireland. You will lead a small team, stay hands-on with Java backend work, and shape AI-powered experiences across marketing data, CRM, and campaigns.

You’ll partner with Product and UX to translate customer problems into scalable technical solutions, balance speed with quality, and mentor engineers to grow ownership and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating backend software systems in production environments.
• Strong Java development skills and experience building production grade backend services.
• Experience leading a small engineering team while remaining an active contributor to code.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of 2-3 engineers, setting technical direction and delivering against goals.
• Design, build, and evolve backend services powering campaign integrations, measurement, and automation.
• Stay hands-on with production Java code and tackle key technical challenges.
• Lead design for integrations between Marketing Studio, HubSpot campaigns, assets, and data.
• Build scalable systems for analytics, attribution, and intelligent recommendations.
• Shape backend capabilities for AI-powered experiences using CRM data and engagement history.
• Break initiatives into technical plans; navigate architecture decisions and risks.
• Coach engineers through reviews and day-to-day guidance; mentor growth.
• Partner with Product/UX to balance speed, quality, and long-term health.
• Drive alignment across teams for shared services and platform capabilities.

Skills

Team leadership

Java backend

Kafka

MySQL

AI systems design

Code reviews

Observability

Product collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Java

Kafka

MySQL

Job description

HubSpot is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for the Marketing Studio Intelligence group in Ireland. You will lead a small team, stay hands-on with Java backend work, and shape AI-powered experiences across marketing data, CRM, and campaigns.

You’ll partner with Product and UX to translate customer problems into scalable technical solutions, balance speed with quality, and mentor engineers to grow ownership and technical excellence.