Frontend Engineer

OutSystems OutSystems · Enterprise · Portugal · Remote

Frontend Engineer role focused on building user-centered applications using OutSystems low-code platform and agentic systems. The role involves developing reusable UI components, writing complex frontend code, and utilizing AI coding assistants to accelerate development and validate output. Collaboration with designers, backend engineers, and stakeholders is key, with a focus on continuous improvement and mentorship.

What you'd actually do

  1. Discovery & Requirements: Participate in discovery sessions to understand department needs and translate them into frontend solutions, bridging stakeholders and development teams.
  2. Design System & Components: Build, document, and maintain reusable UI components, ensuring they follow design principles, accessibility standards, and are optimized for AI-assisted workflows.
  3. Frontend Development: Independently write and maintain complex frontend code in OutSystems (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript), ensuring performance, cross-browser compatibility, and WCAG compliance.
  4. OutSystems Expertise: Utilise OutSystems to build, customise, and optimise frontend components.
  5. AI-Augmented Development: Use AI coding assistants to accelerate development, validate output against quality standards, and share effective AI practices with the team.

Skills

Required

  • 3–5 years of experience in frontend development
  • 1+ years working on the OutSystems platform
  • Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
  • Solid command of at least one frontend framework (React, Vue, or Angular)
  • Experience in Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Responsive design
  • Cross-browser compatibility
  • Understanding of OutSystems development
  • Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools
  • Critically evaluating AI-generated output
  • Excellent communication skills in English
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Team player
  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies

Nice to have

  • Experience contributing to a design system
  • OutSystems certifications
  • Experience testing and developing standard OutSystems components
  • Working knowledge of WCAG standards and ability to apply best practices
  • Proficiency in collaboration and project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Figma)
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows for frontend development
  • Experience using AI tools to perform structured code reviews

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-assisted workflows
  • agentic systems
  • AI coding assistants