Engineering Manager – Plug and Play

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team by establishing direction, facilitating delivery, and guaranteeing the team produces reliable solutions that address genuine operational challenges.

• Take ownership of team outcomes, ensuring your squad consistently delivers significant work while upholding strong engineering standards.

• Mentor engineers through coaching and constructive feedback, aiding in their technical and product development.

• Promote delivery discipline by ensuring the team effectively prioritizes tasks, manages scope, and reliably completes work.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Data, Design, and Customer teams to develop solutions that balance accuracy, usability, and speed of delivery.

• Remain engaged with the technical aspects, directing architecture, reviewing code, and assisting engineers in overcoming obstacles when necessary.

• Cultivate a robust, high-performing team culture characterized by clear expectations, strong communication, and accountability.

• Your team will tackle complex challenges, such as designing Nory’s external API (OpenAPI) and launching the initial endpoints for customers and partners. This initiative will transition integrations from bespoke, high-touch operations to a scalable platform, facilitating quicker onboarding and ensuring high-quality data for Nory’s AI tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Engineering leadership: You have led an engineering squad and take responsibility for team outcomes, health, and delivery. You recognize that success is determined by the team's collective achievements.

• Coaching and people development: You conduct structured 1:1s, provide clear feedback, and assist engineers in enhancing their technical and product skills.

• Product-focused delivery: You have successfully delivered significant initiatives within a cross-functional team (Engineering, Product, Design, Data), resulting in measurable customer or commercial benefits.

• Strong product judgement: You collaborate closely with Product to define scope, make pragmatic trade-offs, and maintain the team's focus on impact rather than mere output.

• Technical credibility: You are an experienced engineer capable of guiding architectural decisions, reviewing work, and helping the team overcome challenges as needed.

• Systems thinking: You think critically about scale, reliability, data flow, and long-term maintainability as the product evolves.

• Clear communication: You bring structure to complex discussions and foster alignment among engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

• Nice to have: Experience in building financial or inventory systems of record. Familiarity 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 requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first environment - You must have the right to work in the UK or EU to be considered for this role.

• Competitive salary based on experience.

• Meaningful equity; at Nory, everyone is an owner!

• 35 days of paid leave annually (including bank holidays).

• Comprehensive private health insurance through Irish Life (Ireland) and Axa (UK).

• Enhanced parental leave and support for baby loss.

• Culture of learning and development – €1000 personal annual budget plus a quarterly book budget.

• €250 home office workspace budget.

• Regular team offsites and social events.

• Opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 3 months each year.

• Offices located in London, Dublin, or Spain.