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Lisboa, Portugal
Hybrid
There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!
We are the digital backbone of OutSystems' growth — building the enterprise applications, integrations, and digital products that run the company's operations and accelerate it into the AI-powered era. We work in small, high-autonomy teams of two to five people, each with a clear mission and the authority to ship. We take both craft and speed seriously, and we expect the people who join us to do the same.
You will join an existing team and take ownership of features and integrations across a portfolio of live, mission-critical OutSystems products and SaaS, while dedicating most of your focus to building new capabilities that did not exist before.
The balance we aim for is roughly seventy percent innovation — new applications, new integrations, new capabilities — and thirty percent maintaining and evolving what is already running. That split is a principle, not a rigid rule: when a live system needs attention, you give it. What stays constant is that you own your output end to end, whether it is new or existing.
As a senior engineer, you are trusted to take a problem from a rough brief to a correct, production-ready solution with little supervision — and to raise the bar for the developers working alongside you.
Solution design and delivery — you take responsibility for the architecture of your own work, execute it, and support it in production, within the guidelines the Tech Lead sets for the team.
Features and integrations that ship to production — real users, real consequences, and your name on them; from build through unit and integration testing to the bug fixing that makes them solid.
Integrations with external systems — connecting OutSystems applications to the wider ecosystem according to the defined architecture guidelines, with attention to correctness and error handling under real conditions.
Your share of the existing portfolio — understanding the applications the team maintains well enough to extend them without accumulating hidden debt, and knowing when something needs escalating.
Quality before it merges — you develop and apply the instinct to distinguish code that is correct from code that merely looks plausible, before anything reaches production.
Shared context that makes the team faster — documenting decisions and patterns, and helping the more junior developers grow through review and example.
We care about how you work as much as what you already know. This is what we are actually evaluating:
You own what you ship. You do not hand something off and move on. You care whether it works in production, whether it holds under load, and whether it solves the actual problem — including in systems you inherited rather than built.
You distinguish correct from plausible. You have enough experience to know that output which looks right is not always right, and you apply that judgment before anything ships.
You deliver with quality and to the timeline. You organise, estimate, and prioritise your own work, and you finish what you take on to a standard you would be happy to defend.
You find a way around walls. When you hit a blocker, you try before you ask. When you do ask, you arrive with what you have already tried and ruled out.
You share context generously. In a small team, what you know is a shared asset. You document, you flag assumptions, you explain your reasoning, and you help the people around you get better.
You are honest about what you do not know. You surface uncertainty rather than hiding it behind confident-sounding output.
You use AI to work faster and better. You reach for it by default and you try the new tool rather than waiting to see if it sticks.
You solve the business problem with whatever fits. You stay curious beyond OutSystems and explore other technologies when they're the better answer.
We can teach OutSystems. We're hiring for how you think. Read the list below as a floor, not a wish list.
At least 4 years of software development experience, with a minimum of 2 years building on OutSystems (required)
Hands-on OutSystems experience, ODC and/or O11. Deep platform expertise is welcome — but so is a strong engineer from an adjacent stack who ramps fast. We'd rather teach the platform than teach curiosity. (required)
Strong backend and integration fundamentals: REST APIs, JSON, authentication patterns, and error handling under real conditions (required)
Solid grasp of solution architecture and application performance, with the ability to estimate and prioritise your own delivery (required)
Experience with unit and integration testing and the bug fixing that follows (required)
Active use of AI-augmented development — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Mentor, or similar — as a core part of how you build, not an occasional shortcut (required)
Fluency in English, written and spoken (required)
Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Experience integrating LLMs via API into enterprise applications
Experience programming with databases — SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL — and knowledge of database modeling
Integration knowledge using AWS or Azure-based services
OutSystems certifications
Prior experience in small, high-autonomy teams where every person's output is visible and tested daily
You hand work off and move on rather than owning it through to production
Ambiguity stalls you — you need complete requirements before you can start
You consider maintaining and evolving existing systems to be below your level
You keep what you learn to yourself rather than helping the team improve
You treat asking for help as the first response to a problem, not the third
You've stopped being curious about technology outside your own stack
High performers in this role move toward technical leadership — the Tech Lead track — or into specialist ownership of a domain or a body of the portfolio. You’ll have a chance to engage with people who have made that move.
You will build and maintain production-grade OutSystems applications that people across the company depend on, with the autonomy to take real problems from brief to production. You will work alongside people who set a high bar and expect you to raise it, and you will develop skills — from integration and solution design to AI-augmented development — that compound quickly in a small, high-trust team. You'll be encouraged to explore beyond OutSystems and bring the best of what you find back to the team.
[ OutSystems ODC ] [ OutSystems O11 ] [ Backend ] [ Integrations ] [ Solution Design ] [ Production Mindset ] [ AI-Augmented Development ]
OutSystems is a leading AI Development Platform built for the enterprise. Global organizations trust OutSystems to rapidly build mission-critical apps and agents, modernize legacy processes with agentic systems, and govern their entire AI portfolio across complex regulatory environments, all on one unified platform.
As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. While AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities, most large organizations find themselves stuck on one side of the "enterprise gap" because AI by itself doesn't solve their complex use cases and business challenges. OutSystems bridges the "enterprise gap" by combining the speed of generative AI with a deterministic, enterprise-grade framework. We provide the tools for teams of any size to deliver high-quality, reliable AI solutions that drive real business impact.
We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us as we empower organizations to build, deploy, and scale the next generation of enterprise software. While we are leading the charge into the agentic era, our mission is broader: we are the platform enterprise leaders trust to evolve their entire business, accelerating innovation through secure, governed human-AI collaboration.
OutSystems is a global company, with more than 900k developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 600 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and includes a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries— such as Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA—who trust OutSystems to deliver ROI and transformational impact.
Consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms Gartner, IDC and Forrester, OutSystems continues to shape the future of enterprise software development in the agentic era. We are proud to be named a leader in more than 100 categories on G2, including #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Enterprise Low Code Development, and most recently as a leader in AI Agent Building in the G2 Spring 2026 Reports.
Our culture is built on our core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Alignment. We operate as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership to pursue our vision of being the AI platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their most critical applications and systems.
What do we have to offer you?
A company at the vanguard of the agentic revolution, where we don’t just react to AI innovation—we architect it. Joining OutSystems means stepping onto a high-growth rocket ship that combines the fearless agility of a startup with the sophisticated, global foundation of an enterprise powerhouse.
Real growth opportunities. We don't just talk about development; we invest in it through structured programs designed to scale your expertise. Whether you are aiming for vertical progression, exploring lateral moves into new domains, or mastering specialized AI skills through our Professional Development Fund and Internal Mobility Program, we provide the resources to get you there.
A global collective of world-class talent, where you’ll collaborate with enterprise software legends and sought-after thought leaders. At OutSystems, our industry experts aren't just visionaries—they are accessible, approachable mentors who are deeply invested in your growth as we architect the agentic future together.
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture where talented individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to learn, experiment and make an impact. . We believe that driving our next phase of growth requires the radical creativity that only comes from diverse perspectives. We are committed to building a team as global and diverse as the organizations we serve, ensuring every individual can perform to their full potential. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.