Principal Pega Developer

Pegasystems; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits program

Employee equity

Job summary

Pegasystems in Waltham, MA is seeking a Principal Application Engineer to shape enterprise architecture on the Pega platform. You will define engineering standards, mentor delivery teams, and drive modernization across critical platforms. The role emphasizes hands-on development, architecture guidance, and collaboration with security, compliance, and production support teams. The position offers a competitive salary and full benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building web applications for clients or enterprise users.
• 5+ years designing application components using object-oriented design, relational databases, integrations, and reusable architecture patterns.
• Experience working in Scrum teams of 5+ members to develop, test, and deploy application features.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, application integration, and enterprise integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise applications on the Pega platform.
• Define engineering standards and guide strategic solution designs.
• Mentor delivery teams and influence technology modernization across business-critical platforms.
• Review application designs, engineering deliverables, and reusable components for quality and scalability.
• Coordinate with business, product, infrastructure, security, compliance, and production support teams to ensure reliability and operability.

Skills

Pega platform

Enterprise app design

Object-oriented design

Relational databases

System integrations

Scrum

Authentication/Authorization

Job description

Pegasystems in Waltham, MA is hiring a full-time permanent Principal Application Engineer.

Meet Our Team:

Pegasystems develops strategic applications for sales, marketing, service and operations. Pega's applications streamline critical business operations, connect enterprises to their customers seamlessly in real-time across channels, and adapt to meet rapidly changing requirements. Pega's Global 500 customers include the world's largest and most sophisticated enterprises. Pega's applications, available on-premises or in the cloud, are built on its unified Pega platform, which uses visual tools to easily extend and change applications to meet clients' strategic business needs. Pega's clients report that Pega gives them the fastest time to value, extremely rapid deployment, efficient re-use and global scale. You shall be part of a highly energetic team that would leverage visual and easy-to-learn low code development tools for designing and developing business application software.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

As a Principal Application Engineer, you will shape enterprise application architecture with a strong focus on the Pega platform. You will define engineering standards, guide strategic solution designs, mentor delivery teams, and influence technology modernization across business-critical platforms.

What You'll Do at Pega:

• 7+ years, including significant hands-on experience designing and building enterprise applications on the Pega platform
• 40% Application Development: design, build, test, and deliver enterprise application capabilities on the Pega platform and related technologies
• 30% Application Architecture: define solution approaches, design reusable components, and guide architecture decisions in partnership with senior and principal architects
• 20% Technical Review: review application designs, engineering deliverables, and reusable components to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with standards
• 10% Cross-functional Coordination: partner with business, product, infrastructure, security, compliance, and production support teams to deliver reliable enterprise solution
• Understand the business architecture (process, data, features/functionalities to solve business problems)
• Identify and design components to build application under the supervision of Senior/Principal Architects
• Application Development
• Develop/code and test the feature and document reusable components
• Follow devops process to promote code to higher environments
• Coordinate with infrastructure, security, compliance, and production support teams to ensure delivered features meet quality, operational readiness, and supportability expectations.

Who You Are:

• You listen to business users, understand their needs, and translate business use cases into practical, scalable solution approaches. Experience with CRM, customer service, or business operations is a strong plus.
• You can independently design and propose solutions using established engineering practices, seek architectural review for significant design decisions, and ensure code is peer-reviewed to maintain high quality.
• You design and build reusable components that improve portability, maintainability, consistency, and speed of delivery across enterprise applications.

What You've Accomplished:

• 7+ years of experience building web applications for clients or enterprise users
• 5+ years of experience designing application components using object-oriented design, relational databases, integrations, and reusable architecture patterns
• Experience working in Scrum teams of 5+ members to develop, test, and deploy application features
• Experience with authentication, authorization, application integration, and enterprise integration patterns
• Some experience coordinating with cross functional teams

Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products

Continuous learning and development opportunities

An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment

Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay and bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

Additional Information

Base salary range for this role is 113,800 - 176,500 USD annually. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus OR commission, as well as benefits and other incentives.

The final compensation will be determined during the offer process based on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as market conditions and may vary from the posted range. We will share an information on benefits, bonus/commission, and other pay components for this role at the relevant recruitment stage.