Senior Software Engineer II, Backend - Customer Journey Product Line

Requirements

• Has 7+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in a modern, cloud-based environment.
• Is proficient in one or more of HubSpot’s backend languages and frameworks (Java, Kotlin, or similar JVM-based languages).
• Has experience designing and scaling distributed systems, search services, and APIs.
• Understands how to build reliable, observable systems that can evolve quickly and safely.
• Thrives on solving challenges involving search relevance, data flow, indexing, and performance at scale.
• Communicates clearly and works collaboratively across engineering, product, and design teams.
• Is excited about building intelligent, adaptive systems that make finding information effortless for users.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that support global search and discovery experiences across the HubSpot platform.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and data teams to deliver reliable, intelligent, and context-aware search results.
• Contribute to the architecture of distributed systems that handle large-scale data indexing, query optimization, and personalization.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and performance across services that touch millions of customers daily.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while applying best practices in API design, data modeling, and service architecture.
• Help guide technical direction and contribute to long-term engineering decisions that shape the evolution of HubSpot’s Global Search platform.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and mentorship opportunities within the team.

Perks and Benefits

• We know the confidence gap and impostor 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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