Senior Product Engineer - Plug and Play
Let’s fix hospitality, for good.
Hospitality is tough – margins are thin, waste is high, and teams are stretched. But it doesn’t have to be this hard. That’s why we built Nory.
Our CEO, Conor, knows the pain first-hand. After founding and scaling Mad Egg in Ireland, he got fed up with juggling “market-leading” systems, clunky spreadsheets, and endless printouts. So he set out to build the tool he wished he’d had from day one.
Nory is an all-knowing restaurant management system. It blends real-time data with AI predictive analytics, giving operators control of their margins. From food prep to forecasting, it’s operational intelligence that helps restaurants run with consistency, certainty, and profit. The result? Thriving restaurants, better jobs, less waste, healthier margins. Learn more about what we are building here.
And we’re just getting started. Fresh off a Series B led by Kinnevik, we’ve grown to 80+ people across Ireland, the UK, Spain and recently, New York – and demand is scaling faster than we ever imagined.
The role
We're looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join our growing Plug & Play team. In this role, you'll build and shape the foundations of Nory's integration platform - owning complex problems end-to-end and helping define how our systems, processes, and engineering culture evolve as we scale.
This is backend-first integration work. You'll design robust APIs, build reliable data pipelines, and connect Nory to the ecosystem of POS, payroll, HR, and accounting systems that our restaurant customers depend on. You'll also contribute across the frontend when needed, but your foundation is in backend systems and integration architecture.
This is a product engineering role, not a software engineering role. That distinction matters. You'll be expected to shape what gets built — not just how — navigating partner constraints, working directly with customers, and making pragmatic trade-offs to ship things that actually work in production. This role isn't just about greenfield projects. You'll also strengthen and evolve our existing integrations, improve internal tooling and observability, and turn legacy or manual workflows into scalable, reliable systems. Find out more about what it means to be a product engineer at Nory here.
You must have the right to work in the UK or EU without sponsorship to be considered for this role.
What you’ll be doing:
Our teams are cross-functional with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility for their product. You will own complex integration and platform problems from discovery and design through to delivery, iteration and long-term evolution. You will collaborate closely with designers, customer success and other engineers in a tight feedback loop with leadership, production and our customers.
Key projects our team is working on:
Expand the range of EDI messages we support to enable deeper, more automated customer workflows
Build and scale our integrations marketplace - making it easier for customers to discover, enable, and trust integrations
Design and launch Nory's public API - creating a secure, well-documented foundation for external developers and partners
Improve our integration infrastructure and processes to make existing integrations more self-serve, scalable and reliable
Strengthen internal tooling and observability to make integrations easier to debug, monitor, and evolve over time
What you’ll bring:
Backend Depth, Full-Stack Capability: Strong production-level backend skills — comfortable with API design, data modelling, event-driven systems, and integration architecture. You can work across the frontend too, but your foundation is backend-first.
Integration & Platform Instincts: You've built and maintained integrations with third-party systems - POS platforms, accounting tools, payroll providers, marketplaces, or similar. You understand the messiness of real-world APIs and know how to build around it reliably.
Systems Thinking & Design: You contribute to technical architecture, take a long-term view of platform evolution, and make sound trade-offs between speed, reliability, and maintainability. You've designed systems that handle failure gracefully.
Product Ownership from Zero to One: You've built things from scratch in high-stakes environments. You know how to scope an MVP, ship it to real users, get feedback, and iterate - without waiting for perfect requirements.
Customer & Commercial Mindset: You seek to understand customer problems, connect your engineering decisions to business outcomes, and proactively improve the user experience. You can talk to customers and partners directly and let that shape what you build.
Ownership, Autonomy & Startup Readiness: You act with urgency, thrive in ambiguity, and proactively unblock yourself and others. You're comfortable taking a vague brief and turning it into something real.
Collaboration & Communication: You work effectively across functions, communicate with clarity, and support a remote-first, async culture. You write well and document your work in a way that makes the team faster.
Learning Mindset: You embrace feedback, pursue growth, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Bonus points if you have
Experience designing and maintaining public APIs — including authentication, versioning, rate limiting, and developer experience
Experience with EDI, electronic data interchange, or standards-based integration formats
Exposure to POS systems, accounting platforms, payroll providers, or HR systems
Experience building integration marketplaces or self-serve integration platforms
Prior experience mentoring engineers or raising technical standards across a team
Our stack
Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Fargate, Aurora, SQS), Postgres, MongoDB, Docker.
We're stack-agnostic in our hiring and care most about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ramp quickly.
What you’ll get in return:
🌎 Remote-first working environment - please note you must have the right to work in the UK/EU without sponsorship to be considered for this role
💰 Competitive salary depending on experience
📈 Meaningful equity, at Nory everyone is an owner!
🌴 35 days of paid leave per year (including bank holidays)
🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance via Irish Life (Ireland) and Axa (UK)
🍼 Enhanced parental leave and baby loss support
📚 Learning & development culture – €1000 personal annual budget + quarterly book budget
🖥️ €250 home office workspace budget
🥳 Regular team offsites & socials
🌎 Work from anywhere for up to 3 months of the year
📍Offices in either London 🇬🇧 , Dublin 🇮🇪 or Spain 🇪🇸
👏 And much more
How we work
Our vision is to build a better future for the restaurant industry.
One where operators are in control, margins are stronger, and frontline teams can build careers they’re proud of. To get there, we move fast, stay focused, and hold ourselves to a high bar. Our values guide how we work, grow, and win – together.
These are the values we live by:
We serve up impact with a side of profit We prioritise work that delivers real financial results for our restaurant partners.
We prioritise speed of service We move fast, unblock quickly, and deliver with urgency.
We act like owners We own problems, raise the bar, and build better every day.
We win as a crew We grow stronger through feedback, collaboration, and shared wins.
We hire humans.
At Nory, we believe that diverse teams build better products. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and walks of life. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, family status, age, disability, or race. What matters to us is how you think, how you work, and what you bring to the table.