Director of Engineering – FinTech Billing

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).

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