United States only(Hands-On • Architecture • Initiative Ownership)
Mayvue is seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Developer to lead critical technical initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on in development. This role is designed for someone who wants to own outcomes, drive architectural decisions, and build software, without serving as a traditional people manager.
Success in this role is measured by results delivered, systems improved, and technical clarity created.
This position offers both in-office (Pittsburgh, PA) and remote flexibility. You choose what works best for you.
What You’ll Do
Own Technical Initiatives
- Ownership of complex technical initiatives across products or platforms
- Drive initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and delivery
- Balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability to achieve measurable outcomes
- Design, evolve, and document system architecture for scalable, secure, and resilient software
- Make and communicate architectural decisions with clear tradeoff analysis
- Reduce technical risk and debt through thoughtful system design and modernization
- Write, review, and maintain production code on an ongoing basis
- Lead development of complex features, refactors, and performance improvements
- Troubleshoot and resolve high-impact technical issues across the stack
- Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system design
- Lead design and code reviews with a focus on clarity, maintainability, and reliability
- Improve development workflows, tooling, and engineering discipline
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, pairing, and constructive feedback
- Elevate team-wide engineering thinking and architectural awareness
- Lead by example through execution, not authority
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering Leadership, and Customer Success to align initiatives with business goals
- Communicate technical status, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support product launches by ensuring technical readiness and operational stability
- 8+ years designing and developing production software
- Strong, recent hands-on experience with:
- C#, .Net
- SQL Server and/or Oracle
- Modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue preferred)
- Proven experience owning and delivering large technical initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to design and evolve system architecture in real-world environments
- Understanding of Object-oriented design, Design patterns, Unit and integration testing and Full SDLC (design → development → release → support)
- Results oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership
- Continuous improvement mindset and desire to remain hands on
- Unlimited PTO
- Life Insurance at no cost to employees
- Short-term and long-term disability at no cost to employees
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Healthcare insurance (Premiums are partially paid for by Mayvue)
- Dental and vision at no cost to employees and dependents
- Optional supplemental life insurance
- Receive $1,000.00 per year for Continuous Learning Allowance
- Receive 1 day paid per year as a Community Service Allowance
- Onsite gym in Pittsburgh office
- Health Savings Account and Dependent Care Flexible Savings Account
- Employer contributions to your 401(k) up to 50% of contributions on the first 5% deferred
- Have your favorite snacks and beverages when you work in our Pittsburgh Headquarters
- Hybrid/remote work available
- Flexible schedule
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