Staff Technical Lead
HubSpot
Staff Technical Lead
Engineering
Cambridge, MA, USA
POS-26269
HubSpot is a leading CRM platform that helps businesses grow and succeed by providing tools that enable marketing, sales, and customer service teams to attract, engage, and delight customers. We are looking to hire a Staff Technical Lead to drive the development and scaling of our GraphQL Middleware team, part of the CRM product platform group.
This role is critical in building and enhancing one of the most vital backend systems at HubSpot, which supports many other teams at HubSpot working with CRM data. As a Staff TL on the GraphQL Middleware team, you will be hands-on, leading the technical direction while scaling our GraphQL cluster and deal flow pipelines. You'll work closely with product managers, engineers, and UX designers to build the most advanced middleware systems at HubSpot.
Staff Technical Leads are highly productive, impactful, and trusted engineers who leverage their skills and knowledge to work autonomously on the most complex projects and set technical direction. Very complex problems can include those that are very broad, very deep, or problems that require spanning across many teams.
The GraphQL Middleware team focuses on enhancing the infrastructure that enables CRM teams to seamlessly integrate backend services, ensuring efficient and scalable data flow.
What You’ll Do:
- Hands-on Engineering: Architect, code, and perform code reviews, contributing to our microservices-based GraphQL infrastructure.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, UX, and frontend teams to build new features and ensure alignment across teams.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor and lead a small team of engineers, with the goal of growing the team and nurturing the next generation of engineering leaders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical strategy and development of our GraphQL Middleware services.
- Work with product managers and UX designers to build new features for backend consumers and improve service observability and reliability.
- Develop strategies for scaling and improving the performance of our GraphQL infrastructure, integrating with micro services, and eventually moving towards RPC and code less integrations.
- Foster a high-performing team culture by mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance, and ensuring continuous improvement.
- Partner with multiple teams and stakeholders across the company, including Senior Product Managers, Staff Engineers, and Technical Leads from frontend and backend teams.
- Advocate for technical best practices, improve system reliability, and drive the GraphQL infrastructure roadmap forward.
Why HubSpot?
- High Impact & Visibility: This role is part of a critical backend system used by multiple teams across HubSpot CRM.
- Opportunity to Build & Scale: You'll have the opportunity to build the most advanced middleware systems at HubSpot and advocate for future backend evolution.
- Career Growth: Lead a growing team and make your mark on the CRM product while representing backend teams in staff+ communities and cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with backend systems at midsize to large companies, especially in high-traffic environments.
- Familiarity with cross-team collaboration and working in platform or infrastructure roles.
- Expertise with scaling and deploying micro services and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of GraphQL, GRPC, and system monitoring best practices is a plus.
If you're passionate about building scalable systems, mentoring engineers, and making a significant impact at a high-growth company, we'd love to hear from you!
Apply today and join HubSpot’s GraphQL Middleware team!
Cash compensation range: 229800-344700 USD Annually
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Cash compensation range: 229800-344700 USD Annually
This resource will help guide how we recommend thinking about the range you see. Learn more about HubSpot’s compensation philosophy.
The cash compensation above includes base salary, on-target commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets under HubSpot’s bonus plan for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, some roles are eligible to participate in HubSpot’s equity plan to receive restricted stock units (RSUs). Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
We know that benefits are also an important piece of your total compensation package. To learn more about what’s included in total compensation, check out some of the benefits and perks HubSpot offers to help employees grow better.
At HubSpot, fair compensation practices isn’t just about checking off the box for legal compliance. It’s about living out our value of transparency with our employees, candidates, and community.
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
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About HubSpot
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