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Lisboa, Portugal
Hybrid
Position overview
This is a permanent, full-time role to lead an engineering team and own what it builds and why. Your team works on Intapp’s AI-first product development lifecycle (PDLC) platform — the system that connects how our engineering teams plan, design, build, and ship product. It spans personal AI tools (like Claude Code and Cowork), a layer of managed agents (such as intent extraction and requirements readiness), and a persistent Digital Thread that ties the work together. You own its direction and the outcomes it drives for the engineers who depend on it every day.
We are deliberately open to strong senior engineers ready to step into leadership: what matters most is technical credibility, a product-minded instinct for what’s worth building, and conviction about how AI changes the way teams build. You’ll own the outcome for your team’s area — not just shipped features, but the result: defining what success looks like, measuring it, and being accountable for it. If you’ve led people formally, great — if you haven’t yet, we’ll support your growth into engineering leadership.
You’ll join an engineering organisation that is AI-first by design — AI is part of every stage of how we build product, not bolted onto the end. You’ll lead one of our Lisbon product engineering teams and work in a hybrid model (3+ days/week in office) from our Lisbon R&D Centre in Parque das Nações.
Intapp, based in Silicon Valley, is a leader in Vertical AI SaaS solutions, collaborating with the world’s top firms globally across accounting, consulting, investment banking, legal, private capital, and real assets. With 20+ years of industry expertise, Intapp’s “Intelligence Applied” approach is transforming how businesses operate and leverages a strategic partnership with Microsoft and a collaboration with Anthropic in delivering industry cloud and agentic AI solutions. The company culture promotes accountability, responsibility, and growth in a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment. Since going public in 2021 and trading on the NASDAQ, Intapp has expanded to over 1,300 employees globally with development centres in Palo Alto, Charlotte, Belfast, Berlin and Lisbon.
Intapp chose Lisbon for its engineering talent and that decision is reflected in what the centre has already become. The Lisbon R&D team has 50 team members that work on the full engineering stack: backend, frontend, full-stack, QA automation, data and ML, DevOps, and database engineering. These aren’t supporting functions for work happening elsewhere. They’re teams with real product ownership, working directly on the platforms that Intapp’s clients depend on.
Our ambition is clear: Lisbon is being built as a flagship R&D location alongside Palo Alto, Charlotte, Belfast, and Berlin. Engineers who join now help shape how the centre works: its culture, its practices, and its role in Intapp’s global engineering organisation.
· Lead and grow a team of engineers — their delivery, their development, and their day-to-day.
· Own what your team builds and why — set direction, define success metrics, and hold the team accountable to outcomes, not just shipped features.
· Own and prioritise the team’s backlog against measurable impact — so engineers always know what to build, and how and when it will be used.
· Champion AI-first practice from the front: be a hands-on user of the team’s AI tools, set the example, and own your team’s AI-first adoption — accountable for it and measured on it.
· Shape the managed-agent and tooling roadmap for the platform — decide what gets built, define readiness criteria, and measure whether it’s actually changing how teams work.
· Translate business needs from stakeholders and SMEs into clear, actionable work, partnering across product, design, engineering, and operations.
· A hands-on software engineering background — you’ve built and shipped production software yourself, with the technical credibility to lead engineers.
· A product-minded approach to engineering — good instincts and awareness of product principles, so your team builds the right things, not just builds.
· A track record of growing people — mentoring, leading projects, or developing the engineers around you (formal management experience welcome but not required).
· You already work AI-first and want to set that standard for a team — with hands-on use of AI tools day to day, and enough understanding of AI agents and context to own the spec with your engineers.
· Comfort leading with data — using delivery, usage, and quality signals to drive prioritisation and decisions.
· Strong written and verbal communication, comfortable with both engineering and business audiences.
· A degree in Computer Science or a related field. Fluent English.
· Prior people-management experience.
· Experience driving change or adoption across a team or organisation.
· Familiarity with engineering productivity metrics and dashboards.
· Background in enterprise software or B2B SaaS environments.
· Attractive compensation — competitive base pay, performance-based variable pay, and equity/stock in Intapp (NASDAQ-listed).
· A results-first culture — we trust people to manage their own time and judge their own output. We care about what you deliver, not when you logged on.
· A hybrid work system supporting agile and flexible hours.
· Opportunity to travel to other development centres for product training and cross-site collaboration.
· Reimbursement for training towards continuing education.
· Generous paid parental leave (including adoptive leave), marriage leave, bereavement leave, carer’s leave, and paid sick days.
· Meal allowance.
· One-time home office stipend.
· A state-of-the-art facility with fully stocked kitchen — 5-minute walk from Gare do Oriente.
Intapp provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and will make hiring decisions without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Please note: Intapp will not hire through text message, social media, or email alone. We will never extend a job offer unless you have been contacted directly by an Intapp recruiter and have participated in the interview process which will generally consist of 3 or more virtual or in person meetings. Please note that Intapp only uses company email addresses, which contain “@intapp.com” or “@dealcloud.com” to communicate with candidates via email. Intapp will never ask for financial information of any kind or for any payment during the job application process. We post all legitimate job openings on the Intapp Career Site at https://www.intapp.com/working-at-intapp/. If you believe you were a victim of such a scam, you may contact your local authorities. Intapp is not responsible for any claims, losses, damages, or expenses resulting from scammers.