Senior Software Engineer II, Backend - Customer Journey Product Line

Requirements:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in a modern, cloud-based environment
• Proficient in one or more of HubSpot’s backend languages and frameworks (Java, Kotlin, or similar JVM-based languages)
• 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
• 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

• Global Search is central to how millions of HubSpot users get work done every day
• Direct impact on usability, productivity, and customer success across HubSpot
• Empower users to unlock value faster and keep their momentum going
• Work reaches nearly every HubSpot customer, making it one of the most critical and rewarding systems to work on within the company