Senior Product Engineer - Workforce Management

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join our Workforce Management squad . This is a backend-first role. You'll be designing data models for complex scheduling rules, building APIs that power how restaurants schedule, pay, and manage their people, and owning systems where correctness and compliance matter. You'll work across the full stack, but your foundation is backend, and that's where the hardest problems live. This is also a product engineering role, not a software engineering role. The distinction matters here more than most places. You'll be expected to shape what gets built, not just how - speaking directly with customers, making trade-off decisions without perfect information, defining MVPs, and iterating based on real-world feedback. Find out more about what it means to be a product engineer at Nory here. The WFM squad is responsible for one of Nory's highest-impact product areas - scheduling, labour forecasting, payroll integration, and compliance. We're expanding into the US market and building toward a more automated, AI-assisted scheduling experience. This is a greenfield-heavy environment: you'll be building new systems, not maintaining old ones. We're stack-agnostic in hiring and care most about strong fundamentals and the ability to ramp quickly. Our current stack is Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Fargate, Aurora, SQS), Postgres, MongoDB, and Docker. You must have the right to work in the UK or EU without sponsorship to be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Our squads are cross-functional with a high degree of autonomy. You'll own problems end-to-end - from discovery through to production and iteration - collaborating closely with product, design, data, and customer success, in a tight feedback loop with real customers.
• Key projects you'll be working on:
• Build labour forecasting tools that predict staffing needs using ML and AI - helping customers anticipate demand fluctuations and schedule the right staff, at the right time
• Evolve our data model to support complex scheduling patterns, labour rules, and multi-jurisdiction compliance requirements, 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 - solving real optimisation problems with genuine operational constraints
• Integrate with payroll and HR systems - building robust APIs and data pipelines that handle sensitive personnel data securely and fail gracefully
• Build out our payroll product toward an autopilot experience for operators - end-to-end integrations, higher accuracy, fewer manual steps
• Support our US expansion by working closely with Product and Sales to ship the right capabilities for the market and iterate quickly on real customer feedback

Requirements

• You work across the full stack. Frontend isn't your comfort zone, but it's not a blocker either. You've shipped full-stack features end-to-end and you're comfortable doing it again. You don't wait for a frontend specialist to pick up your backend work.
• You've built in constrained environments. Whether that's a startup, a high-stakes initiative inside a larger c

Benefits

Additional Information

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 100+ people across Ireland, the UK, Spain and recently, New York - and demand is scaling faster than we ever imagined.

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