Principal Backend Engineer (Go/PostgreSQL) - Remote
ClanX
WorldwideremotePosted 10 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Own customer intelligence and AI workflows at FunnelStory, turning unclear problems into reliable products with Go and PostgreSQL.
- Minimum 8 years of backend engineering experience at product-based organisations, including real startup experience.
- Location: Remote.
- Candidate currently working at a product based organisation is a must.
- Within 3–6 months, own a major new capability, from an unclear request to a feature customers use regularly.
- Experience shipping a customer-facing product that uses LLMs to make judgments, beyond a prototype or demo.
Role overview
Responsibilities
- Build and improve customer-facing features in a multi-tenant Go and PostgreSQL backend.
- Connect data sources such as CRMs, conversations, and support systems to produce reliable account intelligence.
- Build AI workflows that analyse information, take permissioned actions, and maintain an auditable record.
- Decide what an LLM should judge and what application code should calculate and store.
- Make workflows safe to rerun and detect drops in output quality.
- Keep features reliable and responsive across workspaces with 100 to 100,000 accounts.
- Support production operations across AWS, Docker, enterprise, and on-premise deployments.
- In the first 30 days, learn the system by shipping 2–3 fixes a week and 1–2 improvements to existing features.
- Within 3–6 months, own a major new capability, from an unclear request to a feature customers use regularly. Potential areas include intelligence pipelines, CSM agents, renewal automation, and expansion signals.
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of backend engineering experience at product-based organisations, including real startup experience.
- Strong hands-on experience building production services in Go.
- Ability to design PostgreSQL databases, debug queries, and resolve performance issues.
- Experience shipping a customer-facing product that uses LLMs to make judgments, beyond a prototype or demo.
- Experience owning a service or feature end to end, including reliability and production issues.
- Ability to turn unclear customer problems into working solutions independently.
- Regular use of AI tools to build products and write clean, maintainable code.
- Experience working close to users and improving products through customer feedback.
- Candidate currently working at a product based organisation is a must.
Nice to have
- A public GitHub profile, side project, or technical blog is a strong plus.
Additional details
- Location: Remote.
- Employment: You will be employed as a full-time contractor with FunnelStory, a USA-based company. The company will not make any deductions from your agreed compensation.
- Interview Process: 3–4 Technical Rounds: Programming, System Design, and AI Tool Use along with a take-home Assignment
- Important Note: ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping FunnelStory hire a Principal Backend Engineer.
- Originally posted on Himalayas