Senior Backend Software Engineer

Needle is on a mission to help brands with smaller teams achieve big growth with less effort. Our AI‑powered marketing system replaces the bottleneck of 10+ tools, agencies, and freelancers with one platform that gets smarter every week. Brands using Needle grow 177% in a year while slashing marketing costs by 62%.

About Needle

We’re growing fast with 50%+ demo‑to‑close rates. We’ve raised over $2.4 MM from investors like Iterative, Ethos Fund, EQ2 Ventures, and Goldbell. Now we’re scaling our infrastructure to handle 10x growth. You’ll be our first senior backend hire outside the founding team.

Why it’s exciting

You’ll architect the backend systems that power our AI marketing engine from the ground up—building intelligent, data‑driven systems that help brands create thousands of high‑performing campaigns with minimal human effort.

We are an early‑stage, fast‑moving team that builds intelligent, data‑driven systems to power modern digital marketing. We care deeply about architecture, scalability, and maintainability— not just shipping fast but shipping well.

Responsibilities

• The domain model and system design using principles like Domain‑Driven Design, Onion Architecture, and Clean Architecture.
• Production‑grade systems from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
• Scalability decisions as we grow from hundreds to thousands of brands.
• Design, build, and deploy backend systems using modern software architecture practices.
• Collaborate with experts to define our domain model and ensure clear separation of concerns through principles inspired by Domain‑Driven Design and Onion Architecture.
• Collaborate with data and frontend engineers to design efficient interfaces and data flows.
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance in all production environments.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural planning.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with proven experience in building and deploying production‑grade applications from start to finish. You will have meaningful ownership of our backend systems, from architecture and design to development, deployment, and monitoring.

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