The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Public Affairs Institute is hiring a C# Developer in Dayton, OH.

• Role description

  Our next C# Developer will spend less time in meetings and more time in Unit Testing, which is how Public Affairs Institute prefers to operate. Here's the long and short of it — Public Affairs Institute pays $84,000 - $126,000, trusts your 5 years, and lets you own the technology call.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Trace an innovative technology bug across three Kubernetes services to the one bad line
  • Containerize applications and manage deployments with Facilitation and Kubernetes
  • Ship incremental improvements to Public Affairs Institute's Dayton platform on a regular cadence
  • Ship Tailwind CSS fixes to Public Affairs Institute customers in Dayton, OH the same day they report them
  • Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end

  What You'll Bring

  • A point of view on Public Affairs Institute's space, sharpened by your own reading
  • 6+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
  • A knack for Coaching that colleagues quietly come to rely on
  • Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
  • Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a senior capacity
  • Cross-functional ease, from Decision Making engineers to Ruby marketers
  • The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in

  Public Affairs Institute sits at the intersection of Agile and Jenkins, quietly powering technology workflows from its Dayton base. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

  Start at $84,000 - $126,000 and watch the benefits, growth budget, and flexible scheduling do the heavy lifting on your work-life balance.

  We are reviewing Elasticsearch and Unit Testing backgrounds on a daily basis for this seat.

  Apply today and discover what makes Public Affairs Institute a great place to work.

• Required skills

  • Agile
  • Elasticsearch
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Unit Testing
  • GitLab CI
  • Next.js
  • Jenkins
  • Kubernetes
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Decision Making
  • Facilitation
  • Coaching
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Benefits & perks

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Book and audiobook stipend
  • Career coaching
  • Concierge Services
  • Performance Bonuses
  • Onboarding buddy program

• Apply before 2026-08-31

  Submit your application for this Contract technology position.