Senior Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Pega is changing the way the world builds software. We at Pega are providing revolutionary solutions for some of the worlds largest organizations and the most recognizable brands. Imagine going from a problem to a fully functioning solution in production that solves real business problems within a matter of a few hours/days. Thats a challenging set of expectations to meet where thousands of businesses across the planet depend on Pega to transform their business and customer experiences and thats where you come in. You will be joining our team as Pega Infinity Platform Specialist fully trained to be a subject master expert in the design and architecture of our Pega InfinityTM Platform. You will be working with a group of enthusiastic, high spirited, and smart working individuals, who encourage each other to bring out the best to build a world-class product in Low-code space. The team follows the "work hard play hard" mindset. We are passionate about our work creating a difference and feel extreme ownership to achieve meaningful outcomes that matter.

Pega is a low-code platform for AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation. In this role, you will spend your building core features in Pega Infinity Platform, hardening and patching critical existing defects and enhancing the platform where required to keep it current with Industry demands . You will be the respected engineer in your area, with complete mastery of your code base. You are someone who follows best practices to build clean maintainable code and mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to be trained as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in background processing features like Queue processors, Agents and Job schedulers. You should have strong expertise in multi-threading , concurrent programming , object-oriented programming and design along with Java 8 features like Lambda expressions and collections framework

• You will start by learning about Pega platform and use it to rapidly build a sample application
• Actively involved feature development , hands-on coding, code reviews, and debugging for your team's feature areas. You should write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while ensuring timely delivery.
• Actively collaborate with Product owner & team members to come up with backward compatible and targeted solutions for keeping platform current with the industry demands
• Understand design and implementation of your product area and become an expert so the team can reach out to you for design and architecture guidance.
• Mentor and guide your team members in best practices, coding standards, and problem-solving. Provide technical leadership in solving complex problems.
• Drive decisions on scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Write automated tests for code changes made to fix issues
• Own quality and maintenance of your product area and collaborate with quality services organization (consists of experts in quality assurance area) to learn and apply the latest best practices to harden our software
• Work closely with various stakeholders such as Product owner, Architects and Quality Engineers.
• Create and curate knowledge base articles and improve documentation
• Use various tools, languages and libraries like Git, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, IntelliJ, Linux, Java, JUnit, JGiven, Groovy, Spock, cloud technologies

You are a skilled Senior Principal engineer, who can provide technical leadership to the team , own design, and technical direction for your team'a feature areas and also be hands-on to work on feature development. You take quality seriously and ensure high reliability quality in the codebase. You enjoy exploring the latest developments and best practices in the software industry and apply them at work. You love to dive deep into Java and JVM to build a deeper and broader understanding of its semantics and workings. You are a good team player who puts team first, can collaborate with and guide other team members. . You take constructive feedback with an open mind and work to continuously improve yourself.

You have:

• 10 -15 years of software development experience, preferably in a product development company
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science engineering or similar field
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience in Multi-Threading and concurrent programming
• Agile/Scrum development methodology knowledge/experience
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience using: Java, JUnit, IntelliJ/Eclipse, Jenkins, Linux
• Good to have: Experience in ELK Stack, Kubernetes and Cloud Deployment.
• Strong interest and desire to learn and develop using Pega Platform

• Developed functional, robust, resilient and scalable software built using Java
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers, providing technical direction, and fostering collaboration.
• Worked with internal/external customers, product owners to understand problems and provide efficient and scalable solutions
• Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performance software solutions
• Working experience in an Agile/Scrum team environment.