Caixa Mágica Software

Portuguese software firm building custom enterprise applications, AI-integrated systems and national digital identity platforms, including Citizen Card middleware and Linux Caixa Mágica.

Caixa Mágica Software is a Portuguese technology company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Lisbon. It builds custom software, enterprise applications and AI-integrated systems for European clients, with particular depth in digital identity platforms and open-source technology. Its technical work spans middleware development, Linux distribution engineering, nearshore software development and team augmentation, and it has delivered more than 100 projects over two decades.

Among the company's most visible systems is the middleware for the Portuguese Citizen Card, part of the national identity infrastructure deployed to the entire Portuguese population. It also developed the Covid Pass system for INCM during the pandemic, and has maintained Linux Caixa Mágica since 2000, making it Portugal's longest-running Linux distribution. The firm is recognised as a leader in the open-source ecosystem and a pioneer in digital identity solutions at national scale.

The company's work covers the government and public sector, national identity infrastructure and enterprise software, serving clients in Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. It describes itself as a full-service provider, combining project delivery with team augmentation and nearshore development, and reports a commitment to agile methodologies and transparent collaboration.