Technical Lead I, Backend Software Development - Infrastructure
HubSpot
Technical Lead I, Backend Software Development - Infrastructure
Engineering
Remote - United Kingdom
POS-26083
Technical Lead I, Backend Software Development - Infrastructure
HubSpot’s Developer Acceleration teams are charged with making the developer experience at HubSpot world-class. We want building, deploying, and monitoring our software to be as easy, fun, and frictionless as possible for our teams.
We manage thousands of instances and services in the cloud in a way that’s transparent to our developers, and need your help to scale our platform. On top of web services, we also build tools that reside on our developers’ machines to save time.
Even better, we excitedly share our platform technologies not just within HubSpot, but also to the world at large via open-source projects and conference talks. We’ve open-sourced some of our key platform tools, Singularity, an easy-to-use tool for running and scheduling Mesos tasks, and Baragon, a system for programmatically updating load balancer configurations.
We are looking for a Technical Lead to work as part of the developers' experience metrics team. The team's mission is to collect metrics and build powerful tooling to enable engineers to be more efficient and effective at achieving their goals. An engineer joining this team will:
- Improve our pipeline to collect DevOps metrics. Integrate new data sources into our datalake to help teams find bottlenecks and improve their effectiveness
- Build tools that help engineers tackle challenges or bottlenecks highlighted by metrics
As a Technical Lead, your role will involve designing and solving problems in large, distributed systems - This a Software Engineering role where around 70% of your time will be spent on hands on coding/developing software in Java and SQL.
- Lead a small team of engineers where autonomy and flexibility are core values
- Help set the direction for the continued evolution of backend development at HubSpot
- Some previous team, technical or pod lead experience is preferred - managing engineers or projects and taking responsibility for the team’s software design and delivery
- A continued passion to contribute to the code base, this is a hands on role
- Comfort performing code reviews for engineers at all levels
- Coaching and mentorship experience
- Have a history of developing solutions to problems that have had an outsized impact on the organization’s business goals.
- Consistently demonstrated strong ownership of projects end to end, track record of successfully rolling out infrastructure, collaborating with multiple Engineering teams to deliver successful solutions
- Designed robust data models to represent complex domain data that scales effectively as use cases evolve
- Wish to stay hands-on in all technical aspects while leading a team of engineers and collaborating cross-functionally with internal stakeholders.
- Regularly mentor and teach engineers in their areas of expertise.
- Proven ability to solve complicated technical problems and analyze trade-offs with empathy for the developers.
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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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 in a full-time role, 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 HubSpot’s annual PEER week, your Product Group Summit, and other in-person gatherings to continue building on those connections.
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About HubSpot
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