Software Engineer - Entry Level

Gambyt•Ann Arbor, MI

1d•Remote

About The Position

Gambyt is seeking a Software Engineer who is eager to build, ship, and improve real-world production systems used by lottery players across the United States. This role is ideal for an early-career engineer with strong fundamentals who wants meaningful ownership early in their career. You will contribute to customer-facing features, internal tools, and backend services that power lottery applications. From your first projects, you will be expected to deliver production-ready code with guidance from senior engineers. This is a high-impact role delivering software for major US state lottery customers. You will collaborate closely with product, design, engineering peers, and client stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality software.

Requirements

Strong engineering fundamentals (data structures, APIs, debugging, and testing concepts)
Experience building and shipping at least one meaningful project (internship, academic project, personal project, or professional experience)
Comfort navigating unfamiliar code and learning new tools quickly
Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to decision-making
Based in the U.S., able to work standard Eastern Time hours

Nice To Haves

Experience with our technologies is a plus but not required—strong fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly are more important. Our technologies include:
Mobile: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React
Backend: Node.js (with Express), Postgres, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS, Heroku, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Tools: GitHub, modern CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Take ownership of well-scoped features from implementation through deployment with guidance.
Ship production features across one or more platforms (web, backend, iOS, Android)
Write clean, tested, maintainable code that ships to production
Debug issues across the stack using logs, metrics, and systematic problem-solving
Collaborate cross-functionally to clarify requirements and deliver high-quality player experiences
Participate actively in code reviews, incorporating feedback and learning to make pragmatic tradeoffs