There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!
About This Role
As a Principal Software Engineer in OutSystems R&D, you’ll help shape the experience of the next generation of AI driven developer capabilities that are offered by our Platform, building delightful, powerful, and high-performance tools that make modern application development faster and more enjoyable.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with architects, PMs, designers and fellow engineers to deliver features end-to-end — from technical design and implementation to performance optimization and usability. You’ll tackle complex engineering challenges around user experience, scalability, collaboration, and developer productivity, while ensuring that our users can trust the quality and reliability of the tools they rely on daily.
We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about building outstanding developer experiences, curious about new technologies, and motivated by solving real-world challenges with elegant solutions.
At OutSystems, you’ll work in an environment that values collaboration, craftsmanship, and continuous learning — while making a direct impact on how the next generation of software is created.
Key Responsibilities
Drive the solution design, implementation, and maintenance of robust, delightful, scalable, and secure core features for our developers building apps on OutSystems.
Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver solutions that balance functionality, usability, scalability, and high degree of automation.
Own features end-to-end: from architecture and technical design to alignments, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production.
Drive engineering excellence by promoting clean code practices, automated testing, performance optimization, and continuous delivery.
Mentor and support other engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and a culture of innovation.
Stay up to date with emerging technologies and bring forward ideas to continuously improve our engineering.
What You Need To Succeed
Proven experience (10+ years) as a software engineer solving complex problems, and building high-impact products or platforms.
Deep expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or similar), with proven experience defining frontend architecture for large-scale applications.
Solid hands-on experience with C# (.NET Core) or similar backend technologies, with the ability to contribute to backend design discussions and influence service architecture when necessary.
Strong backend and API expertise (required) — including designing and reviewing RESTful APIs, defining service contracts, handling authentication/authorization, versioning strategies, and ensuring performance and resilience across distributed systems.
Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalability principles.
Experience with cloud-native development (e.g., microservices, containers, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, distributed systems).
Familiarity with building developer tools, IDEs, or productivity software is a strong plus.
Knowledge of performance optimization, debugging complex issues, and ensuring product reliability at scale.
Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work across product, design, and engineering teams.
Passion for delivering outstanding developer experiences and helping others build great software.
Good communication skills and fluency in English.
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.