Engineering Team Lead - Inventory

Engineering Team Lead - Inventory

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.

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 New York – and demand is scaling faster than we ever imagined.

We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Inventory team. You’ll lead a squad responsible for building and scaling the inventory systems that underpin COGS, gross profit, financial reporting, and automated ordering across Nory’s platform. These systems turn messy operational restaurant data into a reliable source of truth used daily by multi-site operators. Learn more about what we are building.

This is primarily a leadership role focused on enabling team success. Your performance will be measured by the outcomes your team delivers: product impact, engineering quality, and the growth of the engineers you support.

You’ll set direction for the squad, coach engineers, and ensure strong execution across product and technical initiatives. While you’ll remain close to the technical work and may contribute to code when helpful, the role’s primary responsibility is to lead the team and ensure the squad consistently delivers high-impact outcomes.

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, Node.js, AWS (Fargate, Aurora, SQS), Postgres, MongoDB, and Docker.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll focus on helping your squad deliver meaningful product outcomes:

• Lead a cross-functional engineering squad, setting direction, enabling delivery, and ensuring the team ships reliable solutions that solve real operational problems.
• Own team outcomes, ensuring your squad consistently delivers impactful work while maintaining strong engineering standards.
• Develop engineers through coaching and feedback, helping them grow their technical and product capabilities.
• Drive delivery discipline, ensuring the team prioritises effectively, manages scope, and lands work reliably.
• Partner closely with Product, Data, Design, and Customer teams to shape solutions that balance correctness, usability, and delivery speed.
• Stay close to the technical work, guiding architecture, reviewing code, and helping unblock engineers when needed.
• Foster a healthy, high-performing team culture with clear expectations, strong communication, and accountability.

The team will work on complex problems such as:

• Ensuring inventory data integrity across orders, invoices, stock counts, recipes, waste, and supplier data.
• Improving the accuracy of COGS and stock valuation, including reconciliation challenges such as opening and closing stock alignment, VAT handling, and supplier pricing logic.
• Raising the reliability bar for financial systems, introducing patterns such as audit trails, immutable data models, and locked stock periods.
• Reducing operational overhead through automation and intelligent workflows, including confidence-based routing and AI-assisted processes.
• Laying the foundations for explainable AI, where automated decisions can be traced, verified, and trusted by customers and auditors.

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.

🌍 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 🇪🇸 👏 And much more

What you’ll bring

• Engineering leadership: You’ve led an engineering squad and take accountability for team outcomes, team health, and delivery. You understand that success is measured by what the team achieves collectively.
• Coaching and people development: You run structured 1:1s, give clear feedback, and help engineers grow their technical and product capabilities.
• Product-focused delivery: You’ve delivered meaningful initiatives within a cross-functional squad (Engineering, Product, Design, Data), producing measurable customer or commercial outcomes.
• Strong product judgement: You work closely with Product to shape scope, make pragmatic trade-offs, and keep the team focused on impact rather than output.
• Technical credibility: You’re an experienced engineer who can guide architectural decisions, review work, and help unblock the team when needed.
• Systems thinking: You reason clearly about scale, reliability, data flow, and long-term maintainability as the product grows.
• Clear communication: You bring structure to complex discussions and build alignment across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience building financial or inventory systems of record.
• Experience working with high-integrity operational or accounting data.
• Exposure to automation, AI-assisted workflows, or ML-driven decision systems.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers with audit or compliance needs.