HubSpot

Principal Software Engineer

HubSpot
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Remote, IrelandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical strategy for evolving HubSpot from fixed SaaS subscriptions to flexible usage-based, commit-based, and enterprise-grade contracting.
  • Define architecture for contract lifecycle management, usage metering, entitlement enforcement, and pricing extensibility using the Corex contract orchestration framework.
  • Write production code, lead design reviews, and own large initiatives from architecture through rollout.
  • Coordinate multi-team technical efforts across Adaptive Monetization and the broader Fintech organization.
  • Incrementally improve load-bearing legacy systems while maintaining correctness, reliability, resilience, and observability.
  • Translate technical architecture and tradeoffs for finance, compliance, legal, executive, and product stakeholders.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers, align with other principal engineers, and participate in technical recruiting.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing and evolving distributed systems with strict financial correctness requirements, such as billing, payments, contract management, or usage metering.
  • Experience in a publicly traded company where audit rigor, compliance constraints, and real-money consequences influenced software development.
  • Ability to make incremental improvements to complex legacy systems that cannot be paused or rewritten.
  • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to explain technical architecture to CFOs and compliance stakeholders.
  • Deep backend engineering expertise focused on financial logic, data models, and service contracts rather than platform, DevEx, or infrastructure work.
  • Demonstrated mentorship orientation and ability to influence technical direction across teams.
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity and making sound decisions in rapidly changing systems.

Benefits

  • Annual cash compensation is listed as €148.100—€214.750 EUR and includes base salary, on-target commission where applicable, and annual bonus targets; some roles may also receive RSUs.
  • Employees may work remotely or from an office, with regional HubSpot office attendance required for Engineering onboarding.
  • HubSpot supports accommodation requests related to travel limitations or other reasons.
  • Benefits and perks are available to support employee growth.

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About HubSpot

10,000+ employees

HubSpot builds a cloud-based CRM platform with marketing automation, sales, customer service, content management, and operations tools for businesses, especially SMBs. It sells freemium and subscription SaaS plans with add-ons and a marketplace of integrations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the public company (NYSE: HUBS) reports serving more than 250,000 customers globally.

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