Game Developer

Public Policy Institute; Charleston (SC); Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Public Policy Institute is hiring a part-time Game Developer in Charleston, SC or remote. The role emphasizes ownership of the tech stack with React expertise and a track record of delivering in a part-time structure.

Candidates should be comfortable relocating or working remotely, and ready to lead initiatives in a lean, nimble team. Compensation ranges from $55,000 to $83,000 annually, with mentorship built in and a clear path to more senior technology work.

Qualifications

• Willing to relocate to Charleston, SC, or to make remote work.
• Hands-on Kafka experience that survives a whiteboard interview.
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one.
• A track record of hardworking delivery in a part-time structure.
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Wrangle Empathy config across environments so Charleston staging mirrors production.
• Reach into legacy Ruby on Rails modules and leave them cleaner than you found them.
• Lead the GitHub Actions migration that finally retires Public Policy Institute's make-it-better legacy stack.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Pull Rust telemetry into dashboards Public Policy Institute leaders actually open.
• Tune Flexibility caching so Public Policy Institute survives the Charleston launch spike on the same hardware.

Skills

React

Leadership

Delivery

Adaptability

Tools

Kafka

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Ruby on Rails

Job description

We're opening a part-time Game Developer role for an engineer fluent in React and allergic to undocumented surprises. This is where 1 years becomes $55,000 - $83,000, where part-time hours meet real technology ownership, and where Public Policy Institute bets on you.

Key Responsibilities

• Wrangle Empathy config across environments so Charleston staging mirrors production
• Reach into legacy Ruby on Rails modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Lead the GitHub Actions migration that finally retires Public Policy Institute's make-it-better legacy stack
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Pull Rust telemetry into dashboards Public Policy Institute leaders actually open
• Tune Flexibility caching so Public Policy Institute survives the Charleston launch spike on the same hardware

What You'll Bring

• Willing to relocate to Charleston, SC, or to make remote work
• Hands-on Kafka experience that survives a whiteboard interview
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• A track record of hardworking delivery in a part-time structure
• Proven leadership experience guiding junior-level initiatives

Public Policy Institute is the nimble SC company that built its name on technology work nobody else wanted to do properly. A junior engineer and a director debate Kubernetes ideas on equal footing in our Charleston standups.

Compensation lands at $55,000 - $83,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior technology work is mapped, not vague.

We refreshed it today so candidates know the part-time role is genuinely open.