Entrylevel Java Backend Developer Jobs in Michigan

Software Engineer - Entry Level

Location: Remote (US Only) - Eastern Time Zone

About Us

Gambyt's mission is to make real-money gaming products more relevant and accessible to the world. We are specialists in the lottery industry and create products that deliver life-changing winning moments to players while raising billions of dollars every year for good causes such as public education, nature conservancy, and programs for seniors.

Through our agile software development practice, we create digital products such as games, loyalty programs, and user experiences that are loved by players. Our team consists of extremely talented product managers, UX/UI designers, software engineers, project managers and quality testers that collaborate closely to achieve our vision.

We have rebuilt our company around a distributed remote-work engagement model. To help strengthen connections across our team, we provide resources to support employee engagement and well-being, organize monthly virtual activities, and regularly experiment with new benefits for remote work.

Though fully remote, we are headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which was ranked as a top 3 tech hub by Bloomberg, and is located in the first state in the country where all forms of internet wagering (lottery, casino, sports) have been legalized. We are on the ground floor of an industry revolution that is ripe for digital disruption and looking to expand our world-class team.

Job Description

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.

Key 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
  

Required Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Employee Benefits

All full-time employees receive:

• Remote work environment
• Competitive compensation packages
• Performance and anniversary bonus programs
• Equity program in our privately-held company
• Unlimited vacation and personal leave
• Summer Fridays during the summer months (coordinated company-wide time off)
• Excellent health and dental benefits, with no premium copays
• 401k program with guaranteed company contribution
• Monthly perks like food delivery to your home
• Monthly cell phone and computer stipend

Learn more at www.gambyt.com