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📍 Hybrid role requiring three days per week on-site in Menlo Park.
The Role: Defining Low-Code Engineering Excellence
The Lead Low-Code Engineer will be the principal technical leader responsible for defining the architectural standards, development best practices, and governance for all low-code components within our reusable solutions. You will guide the team of Senior Low-Code Engineers, ensuring that the OutSystems platform is used to its fullest potential to deliver scalable, secure, and highly integrated enterprise applications.
Key Responsibilities
1. Low-Code Architecture & Governance (Primary Focus)
Define Low-Code Architecture: Establish and enforce the reference architecture for all solutions built on the OutSystems platform, prioritizing modularity, scalability, security, and performance (e.g., component reuse, data modeling, environment strategy).
Standardization: Develop and maintain the low-code best practice guide for the team, covering areas like code structure, application lifecycle management (ALM), defensive programming, and integration security.
Quality & ALM: Oversee the team’s use of OutSystems LifeTime, internal CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks to ensure rapid, reliable, and high-quality deployment of packaged solutions.
Integration Strategy: Define the patterns for robust and secure integration between the OutSystems low-code applications and external services, specifically the AI Agent APIs and other enterprise systems.
2. Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Hands-On Leadership: Act as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for complex OutSystems issues, personally leading the development of critical architectural components and accelerators.
Mentorship & Review: Conduct comprehensive low-code code reviews, mentor Senior Engineers, and drive continuous improvement in the team’s technical skills and productivity.
Tooling: Research and recommend advanced OutSystems features, external integrations, and development tools to maximize the efficiency of the solutions factory.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with the Lead AI Engineer and Lead Front-End Engineer to ensure seamless and efficient integration between the user experience layer, the low-code business logic, and the core AI agent back-ends.
Collaborate with the Director of Solutions to align low-code technical strategy with the overall solutions roadmap and platform capabilities.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise (The Must-Haves)
OutSystems Platform Mastery: 7+ years of hands-on, expert-level experience with the OutSystems platform, including significant time in a Lead, Principal, or Architect role designing and deploying large-scale, mission-critical enterprise applications.
Architectural Expertise: Proven ability to define and implement complex, scalable low-code architectures, including multi-layer application models, environment management, and data separation strategies.
Integration and Extensibility: Deep knowledge of building robust integrations (consuming/exposing REST/SOAP APIs) and experience with platform extensibility (using C# or Java) when required.
Performance Tuning: Expertise in diagnosing and optimizing OutSystems application performance, including server-side logic, data queries, and deployment architecture.
Desirable Expertise (A Strong Plus)
AI Integration Patterns: Experience designing integration patterns (e.g., asynchronous messaging, event queues, secure APIs) specifically for communicating with AI services or LLM APIs.
Cloud Experience: Familiarity with deploying and managing OutSystems environments on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Leadership & Professional Attributes
Architectural Vision: Proven ability to translate strategic goals into clear, executable technical architecture roadmaps.
Team Leadership: Demonstrated success in leading, motivating, and upskilling technical teams, driving both quality and speed.
Governance Mindset: Strong passion for establishing and enforcing technical standards and best practices to ensure long-term stability and maintainability of solutions.
The Longer Story:
Working at OutSystems
Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in doing excellent work to pursue our vision of providing the AI-powered low-code development platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their business applications, agents, and core systems. Our culture is focused on our core values of trust, customer success, innovation, and alignment. Our team members operate with transparency, integrity, and accountability, define success through the lens of the outcomes we deliver for our customers, push the boundaries with excellence, and work together toward our shared vision to deliver on what matters most.
What do we have to offer you?
A company that is always growing, changing, and innovating. We challenge each other to innovate in our products, in our team, and how we use our own technology. And we give our teams space to be proactive and creative.
Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Yes, vertical career progression is a possibility, but it's not the only one. From lateral moves and joining different teams to mastering specialized skills, we support your growth no matter what your goals are.
Work colleagues that are as smart, hard-working, and driven as you. We act as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership and working together toward a shared vision.
Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.
We ask “why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.
Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.
