Full Stack Development Team Lead

Huble is an international, creative, digital business and CRM consultancy, holding Elite HubSpot Partner status. We leverage the HubSpot platform to enhance customer CRM sophistication and deliver strategic consultancy across marketing, sales, service, websites, and business operations. We seek a highly skilled and experienced HubSpot Full Stack Team Lead to join our Development team, reporting directly to the Head of Development.

As a Team Lead, you will manage, mentor, and guide a small team of developers while maintaining hands-on architectural responsibilities. This pivotal role involves designing, developing, and maintaining solution architecture on the HubSpot platform, including websites, custom UI extensions, complex workflows, and API integrations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams—developers, marketing consultants, designers, and project managers—to deliver scalable, innovative solutions. Your expertise will drive technical strategy, ensure HubSpot development best practices, and connect business requirements with technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

Software Architecture

• Architect and design full-stack architectures for HubSpot solutions, ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability across both frontend and backend.
• Collaborate with project managers, designers, marketing consultants, and developers to translate requirements into technical specifications and implementation plans.
• Lead the development of both frontend components and backend integrations using modern technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to frontend and backend developers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Conduct code reviews and provide feedback to ensure quality, adherence to standards, and performance optimization across the stack.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies, HubSpot features, trends, and industry best practices, recommending new tools and techniques for adoption.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation, enhance user experience, and deliver high-quality integrated solutions.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges, proposing alternative solutions and contingency plans as needed.
• Participate in architectural discussions, providing insights and recommendations to improve system design, performance, and maintainability.
• Work closely with the pre-sales team to scope solutions and assess the feasibility of prospective client projects.
• Maintain strong proficiency in HubSpot features and functionality, focusing on extending native capabilities through custom software, APIs, and integrations.

Team Management

• Lead and manage a team of developers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development support.
• Work together with team members to provide feedback, support professional growth, and address concerns.
• Allocate and distribute work among team members based on skills, experience, and development goals.
• Create detailed technical briefs and implementation plans for the development team.
• Act as the primary technical interface between your development team and other stakeholders.
• Work with the Project Management and Resource Management teams to manage team capacity, workload, and deadlines to ensure efficient delivery of projects.
• Foster a positive team culture that promotes learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Review the outputs delivered by you and your team, ensuring a high quality of delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

• Relevant qualification in computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of full-stack development experience with proficiency in both frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and frameworks like React or Angular) and backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or PHP).
• 2+ years of team leadership or technical team lead experience.
• Experience in managing, mentoring, and developing technical team members.
• Strong team management and delegation skills.
• Experience in creating technical briefs and implementation plans for development teams.
• Proven track record of successfully leading technical projects and teams.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with team management responsibilities.
• Proven architecture experience in designing end-to-end systems, including both frontend components and backend services.
• Understanding of architectural patterns such as component-based design, state management, and microservices.
• Extensive experience with development tools, build systems, version control, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and the ability to develop, consume, and validate APIs effectively.
• Solid understanding of both frontend and backend performance optimization techniques and best practices.
• Experience in developing responsive and mobile-first web applications with seamless backend integrations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges across the entire stack.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working effectively with cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to gather, interpret, and implement functional and non-functional requirements for scalable, maintainable applications.
• Keeping up-to-date with new technologies, frameworks, and best practices across both frontend and backend development.
• In-depth knowledge of HubSpot’s products, APIs, and platform with a focus on custom extensions and integrations.

Key Personal Qualities for Success

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders from clients, prospects, team members, the leadership team and senior management.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire team members.
• Excellent mentoring and coaching abilities.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback and handle difficult conversations professionally.
• Strong emotional intelligence and empathy in managing team dynamics.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing demands while supporting team members.
• Excellent problem solving capability. None of our solutions are one-size-fits-all, every one of our customers have unique requirements which require creative problem solving.
• Ability to translate your ideas and solutions into easy to understand instructions for developers.
• Passion for technology and interest in the ever changing technology landscape.
• Very strong attention to detail and time management.
• Strong aspirations for personal and professional growth in the area of technology and programming in the world of HubSpot.

Interview Process

1. Intro Call (30 mins)
2. 1st Interview (30 mins)
3. Take Home Assessment
4. Presentation Interview (60 mins)
5. Final Interview (30 mins)

We aim to complete the process in under 10 working days (subject to availability).

Keen to Huble with us? If you are ready to take on this exciting opportunity and join our team, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and let's Huble together!

NB - Please note that candidates must have the legal right to work and current residency in the region.

Please note that we have not enlisted the help of external recruiters for this role. If contacted by someone outside of Huble who does not have the @hubledigital.com email domain, please inform us immediately. Thank you!