Granola
Product Engineer (Backend)
London. Posted 29 days ago
The role
You will own backend systems to make Granola fast, accurate and trustworthy. You will work on the voice pipeline, new models in production, the agent harness, APIs, integrations, and enterprise-grade trust.
What you will do
- Scale real-time transcription for the voice pipeline
- Evaluate and deploy new voice and transcription models
- Build the agent harness for long-running jobs, tool calls, retries, and context retrieval
- Extend APIs and integrations
- Build permissions, data isolation and admin controls
- Own Postgres performance, observability and alerting
Required qualifications
- Owned backend systems in production that real users depended on
- Strong in TypeScript and Node.js
- Deep knowledge of relational databases like Postgres including query plans, indexing, and migrations without downtime
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure as code using AWS, Terraform and Lambda
- Think about security and failure modes
- Product sense
Nice to have
- experience with speech or audio pipelines
- LLM infrastructure
- evals
- streaming systems
Benefits
- Salary slightly above market
- Equity above market
- Relocation support if moving to London
About the company
Granola is building a category-defining product used by teams at companies like Cursor, Vanta, and Linear. The team is kind, curious and design-obsessed.