Game Developer

Advisory Excellence Group; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 41,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Advisory Excellence Group in Pierre, SD is hiring a junior Game Developer to join a productivity-minded team building and maintaining a metrics-driven technology backbone for the Pierre stack. The role emphasizes learning, collaboration, and growth within a supportive, mentorship-rich environment.

You will work on production systems, refactor legacy code, and help shape the data-driven architecture while aligning with stakeholders across the company.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Comfort with working in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerts for production environments.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt.
• Identify data-driven anti-patterns and review changes.
• Decide on Kafka vs build decisions for the stack.
• Tune C# caching to handle launch spikes.
• Handoff runbooks to ensure smooth on-call coverage.
• Integrate Webpack APIs with MongoDB consumers.
• Deliver incremental improvements on a regular cadence.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder alignment

Prioritization

Written and verbal communication

Adaptability

Job description

This is a junior Game Developer position for the person who automated their own job once and immediately wanted to do it again. Picture this: a contract Game Developer seat in Pierre, paying $41,000 - $62,000, where 1 years of doing the work earns you real say over how it gets done.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor system health and set up alerting for low-drama production environments
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Spot the data-driven C# anti-pattern in review before it spreads through Advisory Excellence Group
• Decide when to buy Kafka versus build it for Advisory Excellence Group's Pierre, SD stack
• Tune C# caching so Advisory Excellence Group survives the Pierre launch spike on the same hardware
• Hand off Strategic Planning runbooks so the next on-call at Advisory Excellence Group sleeps better
• Wire Webpack APIs to MongoDB consumers so data lands where Pierre teams expect it
• Ship incremental improvements to Advisory Excellence Group's Pierre platform on a regular cadence

What You'll Bring

• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Familiarity with Advisory Excellence Group-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
• The discipline to finish the boring 20% that makes the rest matter
• Working familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at Advisory Excellence Group

Advisory Excellence Group doesn't chase headlines; it just keeps building the metrics-driven technology backbone that Pierre, SD runs on. People here care as much about how we work together as what we ship.

We start the conversation at $41,000 - $62,000 and end it with mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to grow without relocating from SD.

Updated today and reviewed daily, the technology role stays open.