HubSpot

Principal Software Engineer, Frontend - Design Systems

Remote - USA · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$266k-$426kDetected 2 days ago

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactDesign SystemsAccessibilityProduct ManagementProduct StrategyHubSpotLeadership

About the role

Principal Engineers at HubSpot go deep on the organization's hardest problems and see them through.
Once Trellis reaches maturity, you'll have the opportunity to take that expertise and influence to the next highest-leverage area across Frontend Engineering.

Drive the evolution of the Trellis design system during HubSpot's 2026 UI modernization, shaping the entire product experience
Work closely with Trellis team and Product teams to build and expose a world class component library where the default experience sets a high visual bar, beautiful, fast, consistent, and intentional
Define and develop internal tooling to support the evolution of Trellis at scale, giving the team the ability to test and iterate on theme and style changes
Define and develop the migration tooling that moves HubSpot's Canvas applications to Trellis at scale, codemods, automated refactoring pipelines, and coding agent workflows that make the right path the easy path for product engineers
Leverage coding agents to ship production code regularly and lead complex initiatives from idea to rollout
Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, and drive organizational thought leadership on frontend craft. Setting the bar for how HubSpot builds UI, not just on the Trellis team but across the engineering organization
Partner with engineering leads, PMs, and UX to align frontend direction with HubSpot's product roadmap
Experience developing and shipping a production design system that is used at scale
A hands-on builder mindset. You lead by writing, debugging, reviewing, shipping, and thrive on feedback
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.

14+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of Principal-scope impact on your organization's most critical business and customer needs
Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks, architecture, and infrastructure.
Experience with modern component libraries and tooling, we're using BaseUI, and StyleX, and our theme deployment infrastructure leverages Cloudflare Workers
If you are joining our Engineering team, you will be required to attend a regional HubSpot office for in-person onboarding.

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We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes.
By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress.
And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.
Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.
Hubspot is in the middle of an ambitious evolution from our current Canvas design system, to our new design system, Trellis.
The Trellis design system is a theme change, a modern component library leveraging open source packages (Base UI and StyleX), and defines new UI/UX patterns for use across all of HubSpot's customer facing applications.
The end goal is to provide a foundation to our hundreds of product engineering teams, assisted by coding agents, to build a world class customer experience.
This is a rare moment to shape the HubSpot product experience, used by over 250,000 paying customers and millions of users, from the design systems foundation itself.
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HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.
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