OutSystems Tech Lead

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About the OutSystems Digital Team

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.

About the Role

You will join an existing team and take technical ownership of a portfolio of live OutSystems products and SaaS, while leading the delivery of new capabilities that solve the organisation's most important problems.

This is a hands-on role. You write code, not just review it — you stay close enough to the work that your standard for correctness is earned, not assumed.

This is a role for someone who commits to the outcomes and success of their work. You take responsibility for the quality of what is already running and correctness of everything new that gets built. Those two things reinforce each other — the same standard of judgment that protects live systems is what makes new systems worth building.

Most of your focus — roughly seventy percent — will go into innovation: new applications, new integrations, new capabilities that did not exist before. The remaining thirty percent keeps the existing portfolio healthy, coherent, and evolving. That balance is a principle, not a ceiling: when a live system needs attention, it gets it.

What You Will Own

• The technical architecture — you design and build system architecture across the OutSystems estate based on real business needs and drivers, and you own the development principles the team works against.
• The quality bar for everything the team ships — new features and live systems alike. You are the final call on production readiness, and you guarantee overall delivery quality and OutSystems engineering behaviours.
• Technical direction of a small, high-autonomy team — not through process and approvals, but through a clear standard of correctness that everyone can verify their work against.
• Portfolio integrity across built-for-purpose OutSystems applications — understanding the existing applications well enough to extend them without accumulating hidden debt, and well enough to know when something needs to be rebuilt rather than patched.
• The ecosystem view — understanding the key systems and integrations that surround your applications and the role each plays, rather than restricting your attention to your own modules.
• People growth — mentoring the team, working on individual strengths and weaknesses, and inspiring commitment while keeping expectations aligned.
• Fast validation of new approaches — when there is uncertainty about a technology, a pattern, or an architecture, you explore quickly and return with a clear recommendation rather than committing the team to an untested path.

The Behaviours We Are Looking For

You have reached the level of system-level judgment where you can set direction and let the team execute against it. Here is what that looks like in practice:

• You evaluate at the system level. Your first question about any piece of work is not 'does it run?' but 'is it right?' — architecturally, strategically, and in the context of everything else the team maintains.
• You act as a role model for best practices. You define good software architecture principles and methodologies, seek out the knowledge to make informed decisions aligned with the company's vision, and never propose quick fixes that ignore the future.
• You strive for the optimal solution but understand the trade-offs. You know when to stretch the boundaries to hit a business objective, and you never let tech debt go unacknowledged. You are neither rigid nor careless.
• You have a global understanding of the technology, and you use AI to move faster. You research, you network with peers, and you keep an open mindset for new technologies — then you put that knowledge into practice rather than restricting yourself to what you already know. AI tools are part of how you build and how you expect the team to build, not an occasional shortcut, and you stay curious across the whole landscape — AI, integrations, other platforms — reaching for whatever fits the business problem rather than forcing every problem through the tools you already know.
• You align with the business rather than defer to it. You work with product owners and stakeholders to understand the real problem, foster active communication, and challenge requests that do not support the business goal — instead of blindly accepting what you are told.
• You care about the team, not just the deliverables. You help the team overcome difficulties rather than absorbing every problem yourself or ignoring the pains they are carrying.
• You adapt your communication to your audience. You make sure the message lands — with technical and non-technical people alike — rather than using one style for everyone.
• You respect what is already running. You understand that live systems have users who depend on them, and you extend them with the same care you would apply to anything new — which means you understand them before you change them.

Experience

• Proficiency with OutSystems ODC and O11 — hands-on, production-grade experience across both platforms (required)
• Minimum 3 years of OutSystems development experience, with at least 1 year leading technical delivery as a Tech Lead (required)
• Strong experience in enterprise and backend application development, process design, and project delivery practices, with a clear grasp of the trade-off between technical debt and speed (required)
• Technical skills in architecture patterns, solution design, and application performance (required)
• Active use of AI-augmented development in real work — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Mentor, or similar — as a core part of how you build
• Fluency in English, written and spoken (required)
• Degree in computer science or another technical related field

Bonus

• Experience integrating LLMs via API into enterprise applications
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) server creation and integration
• Experience with Agile Scrum methodology
• Experience working in larger, multi-team engineering environments, where coordination and clear ownership matter across group boundaries
• Prior experience in small, high-autonomy teams where every person's judgment is tested daily

This Is Not For You If...

• You want to be "only" an extra coder on the team, and treat anything outside your own modules as somebody else's problem
• You restrict your area of knowledge to your own applications and technologies
• You are rigid and inflexible, or you let tech debt accumulate unacknowledged
• You accept what product owners tell you without seeking context
• You treat maintaining existing systems as beneath the role you want
• You need a large team or formal approval layers to feel like you are doing real leadership
• You're loyal to your favourite tools and slow to try new ones
• You've stopped being curious about anything outside your own stack

Growth Path

This is a senior role, so growth here is less about climbing and more about widening your reach. Tech Leads who thrive tend to move in one of a few directions: broadening from one team's architecture to setting technical direction across the Digital estate; deepening into principal-level ownership of a critical domain; or, for those drawn to the people side, growing toward engineering management. And because we are customer zero for the OutSystems platform — building mission-critical products on it every day — there is a path few OutSystems roles anywhere can offer: your hands-on experience becomes direct feedback to the product teams, shaping where the platform goes next. You’ll have a chance to engage with people who have taken each of these routes.

Why Join

You will take technical ownership of live OutSystems products that people across the company depend on every day — on both ODC and O11 — in a company that builds the platform you work on. You're expected to bring the newest tools and technologies into how the team works — not to wait for permission to try them.

The small-team model is not a future ambition; it is how this team already operates.

You will have more autonomy, more architectural leverage, and more direct impact than in any traditional engineering leadership role — and a front-row seat to how enterprise software on OutSystems is evolving into the AI-powered era.

[ OutSystems ODC ] [ OutSystems O11 ] [ Architecture ] [ Technical Leadership ] [ Delivery Quality ] [ Mentorship ] [ AI-Augmented Development ]

More about OutSystems

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.

Working at OutSystems

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.