Technical Lead

Summary

Join HubSpot's AI Tools & Context Team as a Technical Lead and build the foundation of a high-impact capability area. You will dedicate approximately 60% of your time to hands-on coding and technical leadership, setting the technical direction and building alongside the team. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define the team's roadmap and success metrics. Build backend systems and AI tooling to enable agent capabilities across the Flywheel Product Line, solving challenging problems related to data quality, search, and information retrieval. Mentor teammates and contribute to the engineering culture of a new team. This role offers the opportunity to scale the team, establish its technical foundations, and expand its impact.

Requirements

• Is a strong senior backend engineer with formal leadership experience
• Has experience with fullstack development, with an emphasis on backend and data-heavy systems
• Has worked with AI/ML systems or has strong interest in applying AI in practical, production use cases
• Understands the challenges of building and scaling data pipelines
• Writes reliable, maintainable, well-tested code and cares deeply about code quality
• Values autonomy, fast learning, and psychological safety on teams
• Thrives in a greenfield or ambiguous environment, and enjoys building foundational systems
• Is excited about empowering internal teams with tools that multiply their impact

Responsibilities

• Building reusable agent infrastructure and internal tools to serve multiple product teams
• Developing intelligent systems that can search and extract meaning from complex data sources (e.g. hours of call transcripts)
• Owning the backend architecture for search, retrieval, and orchestration of agent context
• Lead the design and delivery of backend systems, including hands-on development
• Build scalable data pipelines and AI integrations with performance and reliability in mind
• Mentor and support the growth of junior engineers on the team
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders across HubSpot
• Ensure quality and resilience in all phases — from design to deployment

Preferred Qualifications

Has Java experience as it is our main language and, is preferable but any other JVM language will be considered

Benefits

Remote work, flexible hours