Staff Technical Lead

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Do you get excited about building a platform that serves millions of customers and helps them grow their businesses? Are you the kind of engineer who thinks “there should really be a API for this—so I’ll create one” ? If so we want to talk to you. We’re looking for an experienced Staff Technical Lead who understands the value of great APIs thrives on solving complex technical problems and is driven to create lasting customer impact.

About the Team

The Query API team is a part of our Data Platform engineering organization that builds & maintains critical data stores & APIs that are the foundation of HubSpot’s product.

The Query API team is responsible for an API for complex analytical requests by customers AI agents and internal teams. This API is utilized to build our reporting products and to help AIs answer complex prompts from customers. HubSpot is a multi-tenant system so our systems are designed to be highly reliable with low response latency huge data scale and massive qps. We have big plans for the team and our APIs and need a strategic hands-on team leader to help us achieve our vision.

About the Role

As a Staff Technical Lead on the Query API team you will be a player-coach leading a dedicated team of approximately 3–5 engineers. You are first and foremost a skilled and passionate engineer who thrives on building and creating.

This role offers a unique blend of hands-on contribution (about 75% of your time) and leadership responsibilities (about 25%). You’ll stay deeply involved in coding and design while guiding your team in building high-quality scalable and reliable systems. You’ll also collaborate cross-functionally to ensure the portability platform not only meets technical standards but also drives meaningful impact for our customers and HubSpot’s growth.

We are looking for people who:

• Have years of experience consistently delivering high-value high-impact cross-team projects. Staff and Principal Engineers are the most senior individual contributors at HubSpot. They continually raise the bar for the engineering organization and help drive product vision forward through architectural contributions coupled with consistent hands-on coding.

• Have a thirst for technical challenges implemented within secure compliant systems. We leverage technologies such as Java ElasticSearch and Kafka. We’re not necessarily looking for someone who is an expert in a specific technology but someone who is well-versed in engineering principles and eager to leverage them when running toward the problems that we face.

• Stay deeply hands-on in technical work while also providing strategic direction mentoring engineers and collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders.

• Have a history of building solutions with outsized organizational and business impact raising the bar for technical excellence.

• Demonstrate pragmatic decision-making and problem-solving abilities with a bias for fixing problems through technology rather than process.

• Can guide teams beyond the status quo; we need engineers who lead us beyond what we have and towards what we can build while building a shared notion of how to get there.

Embodies our engineering team values .

Cash compensation range: 227400-363800 USD Annually

Pay & Benefits

The cash compensation below 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 tailored to your skills experience qualifications and other job-related reasons.

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Annual Cash Compensation Range:

$238800—$382100 USD