Engineering Team Lead in London

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.

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.

We're looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Insights team. You'll help build and scale the Insights layer of Nory – forecasting, planning, and decision-support features used daily by hundreds of multi-site restaurant operators. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll balance technical ownership, delivery, and people leadership to ship a reliable, high-impact product.

You should be comfortable working across backend and frontend systems. We're stack-agnostic in our hiring and care most about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to ramp quickly. Today, our stack includes Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, AWS (Fargate, Aurora, SQS), Postgres, MongoDB, and Docker.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead delivery for one of Nory's most business-critical areas: own the technical direction and delivery of our Insights Product, enabling operators to make smarter decisions on pricing, waste reduction, and customer experience.
• Champion forecasting excellence, continuously improving the accuracy and user experience of our predictive tools to build operator confidence and transparency.
• Drive the development of intelligent features that power scheduling and operational planning, including innovative use of AI and machine learning to enhance automation, adaptability, and decision-making at scale.
• Partner closely with Product, Data, and Design to balance statistical accuracy, system complexity, and a simple, intuitive user experience.
• Lead a small squad of engineers: setting direction, reviewing code, unblocking delivery, and raising the engineering bar.

What you'll bring:

• Hands-on technical leadership: Significant experience building and operating production systems, with deep strength in either backend or frontend and the ability to work effectively across the stack.
• Product-focused delivery experience: Previous experience working in cross-functional product squads (Engineering, Product, Design, Data), delivering high-impact work with clear commercial or customer outcomes.
• Systems thinking: You've designed and evolved systems that stand up over time, making pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong product instincts: You connect engineering work directly to customer and business outcomes, and you're comfortable shaping scope alongside Product.
• Delivery ownership: You take responsibility for your team's focus, pace, and outcomes, removing blockers and keeping work moving.
• People leadership: You enjoy coaching engineers, giving clear feedback, and helping individuals grow while building a healthy, high-performing team culture.
• Clear communication: You can explain complex technical ideas simply and work effectively with non-engineering stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Experience building B2B products used by a large number of customers, with high volumes of users, traffic, or data.
• Experience working on analytics-driven products, where reliability, performance, and trust are critical to customer adoption and retention.

If you're excited by the problems we're solving but don't tick every box, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll get in return:

• Remote-first working environment - you must have the right to work in the UK or EU 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.

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. Please let us know if you require any adjustments so you can bring your best self to the interview process.