Job description
Director of Engineering - FinTech Billing
Ireland OR United Kingdom - Remote
HubSpot is a leading CRM platform that provides software and support to help businesses grow better. We build products that are powerful, yet easy to use, and we’re committed to fostering a culture where people can do their best work. Join us as we scale our platform and help millions of organizations grow better.
HubSpot is seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Engineering to lead our critical FinTech engineering efforts, focusing on our core Billing group. This is a high-impact opportunity to own the systems and infrastructure that sit at the heart of how HubSpot monetizes its products, serves customers globally, and ensures financial accuracy at scale.
You will lead 3 Engineering Leads for a talented organization of ~50 engineers, and partner closely with our Finance Systems team. You’ll be responsible for the architecture, development, and operational excellence of systems managing billing, payments, account lifecycle, fraud prevention, and financial reporting. If you are passionate about building robust, scalable financial platforms and leading high-performing teams through complex challenges, this role is for you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and scaling of HubSpot’s finance-critical systems, including billing, invoicing, collections, revenue recognition, and reporting, ensuring they support future growth and complexity.
- Drive the technical strategy and architectural evolution for the Billing group, balancing performance, compliance, flexibility, and modernization efforts.
- Partner closely with senior leaders across Product Management, Finance, UX, and other Engineering groups to define roadmaps and deliver solutions that enable new pricing models, business initiatives, and streamlined operations.
- Ensure high data integrity and audit readiness across financial systems, mastering the flow of data between CRM, billing, CPQ, and ERP platforms (like NetSuite) and proactively tackling reconciliation challenges.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, technical rigor, and high-trust collaboration within your teams and across functional boundaries.
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders and engineers within your organization, guiding a technically diverse team working across microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and financial platforms.
- Reduce time-to-market for monetization changes by improving system architecture and internal tooling.
Qualifications:
- Embody HubSpot’s engineering leadership principles and are enticed by our embed onboarding process
- Experience in engineering leadership, including proven success in a 2nd line management role (managing managers) within a software development environment.
- Deep domain expertise in FinTech, billing systems, payments, or financial platform engineering.
- Experience with complex recurring revenue models (ARR), SaaS/subscription management, and usage-based billing is highly desirable.
- Proven ability to design, build, and operate finance-critical systems at scale, ideally within large SaaS, Enterprise Tech, FinTech, or eCommerce companies.
- Experience working with and integrating ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite) and other financial platforms (e.g., Coupa, Aptitude, payment gateways).
- Strong architectural skills and the ability to lead technical strategy for complex, distributed systems using Java, JavaScript, React, Kubernetes, SQL, etc.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, translate complex requirements, and build alignment across diverse teams (Engineering, Finance, Product).
- A strategic mindset balanced with a strong execution focus, capable of navigating ambiguity and leading teams through technical and financial complexity.
- A commitment to operational excellence, system reliability, and data accuracy in systems where precision is paramount.
- Experience leading technically diverse teams (software engineers/developers, business system administrators).
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.
If you need accommodations or assistance due to a disability, please reach out to us using this form. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.
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, 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 your Product Group Summit and other gatherings to continue building on those connections.
If you require an accommodation due to travel limitations or other reasons, please inform your recruiter during the hiring process. We are committed to supporting candidates who may need alternative arrangements
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About HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides software and support to help businesses grow better. We build marketing, sales, service, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. We’re also building a company culture that empowers people to do their best work. If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 5M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every employee globally, HubSpot was named the #2 Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2022 and has been recognized for its award-winning culture by Great Place to Work, Comparably, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Inc., and more.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, HubSpot was founded in 2006. Today, thousands of employees across the globe work remotely and in HubSpot offices. Visit our careers website to learn more about the culture and opportunities at HubSpot.
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