12 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and scale backend systems that make Granola fast, accurate, and trustworthy.
- Scale the real-time transcription voice pipeline so notes arrive accurately within seconds across devices.
- Evaluate and deploy new voice and transcription models in production.
- Build the agent harness supporting long-running jobs, tool calls, retries, and context retrieval.
- Extend APIs and integrations that connect Granola context with external AI tools.
- Build enterprise permissions, data isolation, and administrative controls.
- Own Postgres performance, observability, and alerting as usage grows.
- Talk directly with users, identify opportunities, shape product direction, and ship product improvements.
Requirements
- Experience owning backend systems in production that real users depend on.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills.
- Deep knowledge of relational databases, including query plans, indexing, and zero-downtime migrations.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure as code using AWS, Terraform, and Lambda.
- Ability to consider security and failure modes before the happy path.
- Strong product sense and ability to explain the user value of technical systems.
- Bonus: experience with speech or audio pipelines, LLM infrastructure, evaluations, or streaming systems.
Benefits
- Slightly above-market salary and above-market equity.
- Relocation support for candidates moving to London.
- In-person work five days per week at the Old Street office, with flexibility, no fixed office hours, and a relaxed dress code.
- Employees receive a budget from day one for new models, tools, and technologies that improve productivity.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendProduct Engineering
About Granola
Granola builds an AI-powered notepad and shared team workspace that captures and organizes meeting notes for busy professionals. Delivered as a SaaS product, it is used at companies including Salesforce, DoorDash, Vercel, Cursor, Lovable, and Decagon. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in London, it serves a predominantly U.S. customer base and is expanding go-to-market teams in London and San Francisco.