Staff Technical Lead – Marketing Studio Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Oversee a small team of 2 engineers, establishing technical direction and assisting in achieving collective product and engineering objectives.

• Develop, construct, and enhance backend services that support campaign integrations, measurement, automation, and advanced Marketing Studio functionalities.

• Actively contribute production-quality Java code.

• Guide technical design for integrations between Marketing Studio, HubSpot campaign systems, marketing assets, CRM data, and platform functionalities.

• Create scalable systems for reporting on campaign performance, attribution, analytics, and intelligent recommendations.

• Develop backend capabilities for AI-driven experiences utilizing campaign context, CRM data, and engagement history.

• Decompose complex initiatives into technical plans and steer architecture decisions, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery risks.

• Mentor and coach engineers through design evaluations, code reviews, constructive feedback, and technical support.

• Collaborate with Product and UX teams to transform customer challenges into technical solutions.

• Foster alignment among engineering teams on shared services, campaign infrastructure, data systems, integrations, and Studio platform functionalities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in designing, building, and managing backend software systems within production settings.

• Proficient Java development skills with experience in creating production-grade backend services.

• Familiarity with Kafka, MySQL, or similar backend technologies.

• Proven experience in technically leading a small engineering team while actively contributing to the codebase.

• Demonstrated experience in coaching and mentoring engineers.

• Strong grasp of system design principles, scalability, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, testing, and observability.

• Background in designing and delivering AI-powered products, agentic workflows, AI agents, recommendation systems, decision-making systems, personalization, or next-best-action experiences.

• Experience in building backend orchestration, services, APIs, and feedback loops linking AI or ML models to customer actions and outcomes.

• Experience working with intricate, high-volume data.

• Capability to define evaluation, monitoring, and learning mechanisms for AI-generated recommendations or insights.

• Ability to collaborate with ML and data science teams for model integration and production deployment.

• Strong product judgment and customer empathy.

• Skilled in communicating complex AI concepts clearly and influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, UX, Design, and business domains.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus targets as part of HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible positions.

• Eligibility for HubSpot’s equity plan and restricted stock units (RSUs) for certain roles.

• Flexible work arrangements: Remote, Flex, or Office options available.

• In-person onboarding at a regional HubSpot office for members of the Engineering team.

• Participation in in-person Product Group Summit and other events for the broader Product team.

• Alternative arrangements for candidates needing accommodations due to travel limitations or other factors.