Senior Software Engineer

Pegasystems; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pegasystems in Waltham is seeking a software engineer with 3-6 years of OO development to join a highly engaged team. You will contribute to design and development of features on top of the Pega Platform, solving customer problems with modern technologies in a hybrid work setting.

The role emphasizes learning, critical thinking, and collaboration as you work with product managers to align requirements with implementation while meeting tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of software development experience in an object-oriented language.
• Prior experience working in Pega’s PRPC tool is a huge plus.
• BE or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• Growth mindset—embracing curiosity, continuous learning, and adaptability in a fast-changing technology environment.
• Ability to think critically, learn quickly from change, and apply engineering principles to deliver quality results.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and development of features enabling customers to differentiate themselves from competitors and driving them to stay ahead.
• Visualize scenarios, needs of vertical apps and design robust models
• Identify and assess the impact of an enhancement or a change across multiple vertical apps and drive an optimal solution.
• Carry out proofs of concepts, spikes for use cases dealing with complex scenarios
• Adapt to frequent change
• Exhibit a commitment to continuous learning and development
• Work in strict timeframes and meet aggressive deadlines
• Work as part of a collaborative team with mindful of good software development patterns and practices
• Work with product manager to understand the supported schemes and regulations or changes and implement accordingly.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Growth mindset

Education

BE or MS in CS/CE/EE

Tools

PRPC

Job description

Pega is changing the way the world builds software. In this role, you will be part of highly engaged teams designing and developing best-in-class solutions applying modern & cutting-edge technologies. This is your opportunity to be part of a highly engaged, creative and vibrant team to get your hands on leading technologies to solve interesting customers problems.

At Pega, we actively explore and embrace emerging AI capabilities with curiosity, responsibility, and a drive for meaningful innovation. You will work in an environment where AI enabled tools are used to enhance learning, improve engineering efficiency, and support better decision making across the cloud platform.

We expect engineers to apply critical thinking to all AI generated outputs—validating accuracy, quality, and relevance before applying them in production environments. We view AI maturity as a spectrum, progressing from foundational adoption toward more strategic, advocacy driven integration, and you will play an active role in that journey.

Please note this role is hybrid in Waltham 3x/week. Because of the exposure to federal clients, this role is not eligible unfortunately at this time to work on or transfer H1-B, OPT/CPT EAD or other STEM visas.

Meet Our Team:

Customer Service team is responsible for designing and implementing features on top of Pega Platform while building consumer grade Customer Service application features that can be smoothly taken up by our internal customers; and external customers alike. This team churns out multiple product releases in a year while ensuring we maintain the highest level of product quality and cover multiple scenarios involving Performance, Scalability, HA, Implementation, Security and Accessibility. High emphasis is given to architecture and designs while also enhancing application maturity. You will be the catalyst and focal point guiding a talented engineering team building differentiated products enabling Pega customers in their efforts to serve customers.

What You'll Do At Pega:

• Contribute to design and development of features enabling customers to differentiate themselves from competitors and driving them to stay ahead
• Visualize scenarios, needs of vertical apps and design robust models
• Identify and assess the impact of an enhancement or a change across multiple vertical apps (consuming) and drive an optimal solution.
• Carry out proof of concepts, spikes for use cases dealing with complex scenarios
• Adapt to frequent change
• Exhibit a commitment to continuous learning and development
• Work in strict timeframes and meet aggressive deadlines
• Work as part of a collaborative team with mindful of good software development patterns and practices surrounded by fun loving talented engineers
• Work with product manager to understand the supported scheme(s) association regulations or changes and work towards development.

Who You Are:

A result oriented individual, driven with passion and ability to explore solutions and solve complex customer problems.

• 3-6 years of software development experience in an object-oriented language
• Prior experience working in Pega’s PRPC tool is a huge plus
• BE or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• You demonstrate a strong Growth Mindset—embracing curiosity, continuous learning, and adaptability in a fast-changing technology environment. You are comfortable speaking about AI with confidence and conviction, and you view AI as an enabler to improve outcomes rather than a substitute for sound engineering principles.
• You challenge assumptions, learn quickly from change, and apply critical thinking to validate outputs and make informed decisions. You bring a thoughtful, quality driven approach to your work and actively contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You've Accomplished:

• Exposure to integration technologies like XML, JSON, REST, SOAP is preferred
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Partner with internal clients, like Product Managers, to align business goals with implementation results
• Demonstrates customer empathy, willing to adopt best practices ensuring delivered work exceeds customer ever changing demands
• A creative problem solver – passionate to analyze, identify and solve problems
• Team player with good verbal and written communication skill
• Ability to design solutions to simple to medium complex problems/use cases using Pega decisioning technologies
• Ability to think and code fast independently with little hand holding and mostly driven with self- initiation
• Ability to adapt to changes quickly
• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
• Continuous learning and development opportunitiesAn innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay and bonus incentive, employee equity in the company
• An opportunity to work in an organization that actively invests in AI enabled learning, innovation, and responsible adoption across its engineering practices