Senior Product Engineer - Workforce Management
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 Workforce Management team. In this role, you'll own and deliver critical, high-impact features that empower hospitality teams, improve scheduling accuracy, and help restaurants operate efficiently and sustainably.
You will be backend-first in your technical approach — comfortable designing data models, building robust APIs, and owning the systems that underpin how restaurants schedule, pay, and manage their people. 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 - working directly with customers, making trade-offs under pressure, and iterating fast based on real-world feedback. 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 plan, design, build, test, ship, support and operate the WFM product across the full stack - solving real problems and adding vital value for our customers every day. You will collaborate closely with designers, customer success and other engineers in a tight feedback loop with leadership, production and our customers.
Key projects you'll be working on:
Build sophisticated labour forecasting tools to predict staffing needs. We use ML/AI to help our customers anticipate demand fluctuations and schedule the right staff, at the right time, always.
Evolve our data model to support complex scheduling patterns, labour rules, and compliance requirements. The WFM domain covers everything from schedule building to legislative compliance - including US labour law as we scale our New York presence.
Collaborate with our Data team on scheduling AI that balances business needs, employee preferences, and labour laws. We're solving complex optimisation problems to create efficient schedules while prioritising staff wellbeing.
Integrate with payroll and HR systems to create a seamless experience across the employee lifecycle - building robust APIs and data pipelines that securely handle sensitive personnel data.
Build out our payroll product to help customers run payroll with higher accuracy and fewer manual steps - end-to-end integrations across systems, closer to an autopilot experience for operators.
Support our US expansion by working closely with Product and Sales to ship the right capabilities for the market and iterate quickly based on real customer feedback.
What you’ll bring:
Full-Stack Capability: Strong production-level backend skills - comfortable with data modelling, API design, and distributed systems. You can work across the frontend too, but your foundation is backend.
Systems Thinking & Design: You contribute to technical architecture, design scalable systems, and take a long-term view of platform evolution. You've navigated real constraints, compliance, data integrity, performance, and made sound trade-offs.
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 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 the person who figures out what needs doing and does it, not the one who waits to be told.
Collaboration & Communication: You work effectively across functions, communicate with clarity, and support a remote-first, async culture. You write well and can explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders without losing the nuance.
Learning Mindset: You embrace feedback, pursue growth, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Bonus points if you have:
Experience in scheduling systems, labour compliance, payroll, or workforce management
Familiarity with US labour law, FLSA compliance, or multi-jurisdiction employment rules
Exposure to AI/ML applications in operational or workforce contexts
Experience in hospitality tech, HR tech, or operational SaaS
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
💰 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.