25% of open engineering leadership roles in Portugal mention AI coding tools
Across 36 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 17 companies, from public job boards. "EU" here means Europe: the EU-27, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and the rest of Europe, plus remote roles open across Europe.
36
Open leadership roles in Portugal
9
Mention AI coding tools
25%
2
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
5.6%
By country
Show all of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 293 | 47 | 16% |
| Germany | 243 | 50 | 21% |
| France | 93 | 7 | 7.5% |
| Poland | 74 | 29 | 39% |
| Spain | 73 | 22 | 30% |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 53 | 4 | 7.5% |
| Netherlands | 40 | 9 | 23% |
| Portugal | 36 | 9 | 25% |
| Ireland | 33 | 6 | 18% |
| Sweden | 29 | 5 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Belgium | 17 | 6 | 35% |
| Serbia | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Finland | 15 | 5 | 33% |
| Greece | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Austria | 14 | 2 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 11 | 4 | 36% |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Italy | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Denmark | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Romania | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Norway | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovakia | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Cyprus | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Czechia | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| Hungary | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Latvia | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Malta | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
A posting counts for the first European country it lists. Remote roles open across Europe have no single country.
Leadership vs individual contributors in Portugal
All 388 open engineering roles: 11% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 25%, individual contributors 9.4%.
| Role family | Share mentioning AI tools | Mention AI | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | 25% | 9 | 36 |
| Software (general) | 12% | 9 | 75 |
| Data / ML engineering | 9.0% | 6 | 67 |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 11% | 7 | 62 |
| Backend | 1.9% | 1 | 54 |
| Full stack | 23% | 7 | 31 |
| Frontend | 4.8% | 1 | 21 |
| QA / Test / SDET | 5.0% | 1 | 20 |
| Security engineering | 0% | 0 | 19 |
| Mobile | 33% | 1 | 3 |
Posting languages in Portugal
All open engineering roles by the language the posting is written in. Tags are matched in English and eight other European languages, so local-language postings count too.
| Language | Share of postings | Open roles | Mention AI tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 96% | 373 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 3.4% | 13 | 7.7% |
| Not detected | 0.5% | 2 | 0% |
Top tools in Portugal
Latest roles mentioning AI tools
All matching postings →SIXT · Lisbon, Portugal
…like Kafka, and can navigate legacy PHP/Oracle environments when needed AI Practitioner You run your own AI-assisted engineering workflow, iterate on it actively, and can assess agent-generated output for genuine engineering judgment —…
Snyk · Portugal - Lisbon Office
…for enterprise customers, and are comfortable owning its reliability - have hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and want to embed AI in how we build, test and operate - have a track record of delivering with both…
Block Labs · Portugal; Albania; Georgia; Greece; Bulgaria; Kosovo; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Armenia; Italy; Spain; Malta; Romania; Ireland; South Africa; Croatia; Serbia; Montenegro
…production features fast, and build the workflow and tooling that make this repeatable. - Ship with AI coding agents every day as your main way of working, with the checks that keep quality high at agent speed, and raise the…
Enhesa · Lisbon, Portugal
…uses AI across the software development lifecycle, continuously improving how engineers work with tools like Claude Code. You will play an important role in shaping our technology and helping accelerate our progress towards SaaS…
Cloudflare · Hybrid; Austin, TX, United States; Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; San Francisco, CA, United States
…change, and building alignment across engineering and business stakeholders. You’ll model responsible AI-assisted engineering, operational excellence, sound judgment, and attention to detail. Responsibilities include: Establish and…
Datacamp · Portugal; Belgium
…and performance. This is an AI-native organization, not an AI-curious one. Agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Codex are core to how the team works every day, alongside LLMs and AI APIs. As the manager, you set the…
Block Labs · Portugal; Albania; Georgia; Greece; Bulgaria; Kosovo; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Armenia; Italy; Spain; Malta; Romania; Ireland; South Africa; Croatia; Serbia; Montenegro
…modes each brings. Cloud native, and serious about reliability, observability, and security. • A repeatable agentic engineering system you built deliberately. It holds context, decomposes ambiguous work, verifies behaviour rather than…
Indiciumai · Lisbon; Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
…engineering teams deliver natural language query and LLM-augmented data products. Utilise GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar AI coding assistants to accelerate modelling, documentation, and pipeline development. Design and…
Olx · Remote Portugal, Portugal; Remote Poland, Poland
StaffPortugalRemoteCursorClaude CodeAgentic workflowsMulti-agent systemsPrompt / context engineeringGuardrails…organisation to scale efficiently. Who we are looking for: You can use agentic workflows (Claude Code, Cursor Agent, or equivalent) as your default, not as a novelty. You practice context engineering, not just prompt…
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