Principal (Backend) Engineer – GoLang

Filled
January 13, 2026

Job Description

Job Details

  • Company Name: FunnelStory
  • Employment type: Full time
  • Experience: 4+ years 
  • Salary: $44,000 to $77,000 a year
  • Location : Remote Option Available

Work schedule : 5 days a week

What are we building?

FunnelStory is building revenue data platform for Go-to market teams to engage and prioritize what matters.

We are looking for a principal backend engineer to build out our core product.

Opportunity

• Building product from inception to V1.0
• You will set the foundations for our engineering team.
• You will influence our architecture choices, engineering process and team’s cultural values.
• Build and Manage the Infrastructure stack
• Contribute to the backend tech stack built on Go, Docker, SQL, and AWS.
• Work closely with the co-founders and other engineers to design and develop new features.
• As we grow you will be able to lead a team

Who Are you?

As a principal engineer/architect
• You are opinionated, drive accountability, and appreciate ownership.
• You take pride in tackling unknown problems and finding creative solutions. You assimilate information easily and can communicate complicated ideas to others.
• You are unafraid to challenge the status quo and bring new ideas to a team.
• You like to build aspirational products that customers love.

Your Experience
• You have 7+ years experience as a senior engineer with a background in CS from a top university
• 4+ years of writing backend services and/or REST APIs in Go/GoLang
• 4+ years of SQL experience using PostgreSQL or MySQL (or similar flavors)
• Experience with Docker and AWS
• You are fairly conversant with Go and have defined/architected major modules/components
• You can communicate complex ideas simply.

What do we offer
• A diverse, passionate & driven team of all backgrounds
• Competitive salary & equity package
• Flexible vacation policy