Game Developer: End-to-End Tech & Work-Life Balance

Energy Innovation Corp; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 79,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

VentureCore in Madison, WI is seeking a Game Developer to own a technology service end to end, from requirements through on-call rotation. You will work to untangle release blockers and drive dashboards that executives actually use, while tuning queries to prevent timeouts as data scales.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration, multi-priority management, and a proactive, data-driven approach to performance and reliability in a fast-paced team setting.

Qualifications

• 3 years of game development experience
• Ability to balance multiple priorities
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Own a technology service end to end from requirement to on-call
• Untangle dependencies that slow Madison releases
• Pull telemetry into dashboards for leadership review
• Tune queries to prevent timeouts under load
• Defend uptime during off-hours
• Migrate Work-Life Balance stack out of the WI region
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events
• Build GitLab CI dashboards to inform engineers with numbers

Skills

Strong rapport-building

Communication discipline

Pattern recognition

Multitasking

Organizational skills

Tools

Next.js

GitLab CI

Job description

VentureCore in Madison, WI is seeking a Game Developer to own a technology service end to end, from requirements through on-call rotation. You will work to untangle release blockers and drive dashboards that executives actually use, while tuning queries to prevent timeouts as data scales.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration, multi-priority management, and a proactive, data-driven approach to performance and reliability in a fast-paced team setting.