Founding Staff Mobile Engineer

Let’s fix hospitality, for good.

Hospitality runs on thin margins, and most operators are stretched trying to protect them. We built Nory to fix this problem.

Our CEO, Conor, knows the pain first-hand. He founded and scaled Mad Egg in Ireland, and grew tired of stitching together so-called market-leading systems and spreadsheets just to keep the business running. He set out to build the tool he wished he’d had from day one

Nory is a restaurant management system that blends real-time data with machine learning and autonomous agents to give operators real control of their margins. From food prep to forecasting, it is the operational intelligence that helps restaurants run profitably, with less waste and better jobs for the people working in them.

Fresh off a Series B led by Kinnevik, we’ve grown to over 100 people across Ireland, the UK, Spain and New York. Demand is scaling faster than we expected.

 

The role

We’re looking for our first dedicated Staff Mobile Engineer to join our Platform team. This is a true builder's role with big impact - you’ll be shaping Nory’s mobile app from the ground up. Design support here is lean - so you'll often be the one making and defending the UX call yourself, not just implementing someone else's spec.

Nory Team is the mobile app we’ve built for everyone on the restaurant floor. It's how staff clock in, check their shifts, book leave and get paid. As part of our continuous investment into our stack, we want to rebuild our app from scratch to make sure we have the best possible experience for our customers. The real challenge is reliability. These apps run in basements with no signal, on cracked and low-spec phones, for people who often speak English as a second language. A failed clock-in means a missed shift or a missed paycheck, so it has to work every time. Nailing that in the messiest conditions is the heart of the job.

React Native is where you'll spend most of your days, so deep experience with it is essential. Our apps currently run on Capacitor over React, and the wider stack is Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (Fargate, Aurora, SQS), Postgres, MongoDB and Docker.

Right to work in the UK or EU without sponsorship is required for this role. We can't progress candidates who need visa sponsorship.

 

What you’ll be doing

Our squads are cross-functional and run with a lot of autonomy. You’ll own the mobile platform end to end, from working out what’s there today to a full production rebuild and everything after it, working closely with product, design and engineers from across the business. You’ll own the rebuild end to end: assess what’s there, set the architecture, plan the migration and ship an MVP in one to two quarters, then grow it into a platform the rest of engineering builds on. You’ll lean on AI to move fast while keeping the quality bar high.

Key projects you’ll be working on:

• Build for the real world. The app has to hold up on patchy connectivity and low-spec devices (we support down to iOS 16 and Android 12, with as little as 2GB RAM), with offline caching to bridge the gaps rather than a full offline mode, because for our users, a failed clock-in means a missed shift or a missed paycheck.

• Own the features only a native app can deliver. Push notifications for shift changes and alerts, camera-based scanning for receipts and inventory documents, and geolocation-verified clock-in are things the web app can’t do. Building and keeping them reliable, even with flaky GPS and patchy signal, is core to the job.

• Make and defend the product and UX calls yourself. Design support is lean, so you’ll decide what ships and what gets cut when a deadline forces a trade-off, and you’ll know what to protect.

• Set up the design system and put AI agents to work in parallel. Modular building blocks in React Native, and a codebase designed for coding agents to produce good output, so the team can move fast without cutting corners on UX. You’re building the machine that builds the app, not just the app.

• Grow the rebuild into a platform, owning the quality and pace of the mobile codebase and giving other engineers at Nory a solid base to build on.

• Work closely with design and engineering, and stay outward-facing as the core of a small platform team.

 

What you’ll bring

• Deep React Native experience and comfort across the stack. You’ve shipped production React Native apps in TypeScript and can run a mobile codebase on your own, start to finish. You’ve built native-only features like push notifications, camera access or geolocation, and you’re comfortable enough in the backend to read and lightly extend our FastAPI services when the mobile work needs it, rather than waiting on someone else. When the work calls for it, you’re happy dropping into our React web codebase too. You don’t need Swift or Kotlin, though a bit of curiosity about the lower-level APIs on each OS goes a long way.

• You build for scale and reliability. You’ve worked on apps with real usage behind them, tens of thousands of actions a day, and you’re careful about API calls, webhooks and performance so things stay fast and dependable.

• You actually care about product and UX. You can point to a specific product or UX decision you made that changed what got built, not just a general “I care about users.” Design quality is part of the engineering to you, not someone else’s job, and you’re comfortable making that call independently when a dedicated designer isn’t in the room.

• You build with AI, but you don’t let standards slip. You get a lot faster with AI agents while still holding a high bar on detail, design and craft. You know how to structure a codebase, including setting up a design system or shared component library, so the team and your AI agents both produce consistent, high-quality output.

• You’ve done a from-scratch build or a big migration, and you own problems, not tickets. You’ve taken something greenfield from nothing to shipped, or torn down and rebuilt a legacy app, and you can walk us through the architecture, testing and migration decisions you made, and why. You work independently, take responsibility for how things turn out, and you’re more likely to say “I decided” than “we decided.”

• You’re outward-facing, and you communicate clearly and confidently. You don’t mind engineers from across the company coming to you, and you’re comfortable going out to talk to them too. As the outward-facing hub of a small platform team, people need to be able to follow you quickly, in person and in writing.

Bonus points

• Experience building people tech or HR tech workflows at scale.

• A background on a web and mobile platform team, where you picked up strong habits around architecture and best practices.

• Experience building B2C or consumer-grade apps that are quick, responsive and genuinely nice to use.

• Some hands-on tinkering with native APIs (Swift or Kotlin), even if it’s not your day job.

• Experience in hospitality, food service or another operational industry.

 

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 and development culture, with a €1,000 personal annual budget plus a quarterly book budget

🖥️ €250 home office workspace budget

🥳 Regular team offsites and socials

🌎 Work from anywhere for up to 3 months of the year

📍 Offices in 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 of their businesses and the people on the floor can build careers they are proud of. To get there we move fast, stay focused and hold ourselves to a high bar. Our values guide how we work and grow together.

• 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 each other and deliver with urgency.

• We act like owners. We take problems on, 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.