Junior Developer

PURPOSE

The Junior Developer will support the continued development, maintenance, testing, and improvement of the company’s fantasy sports mobile application after its initial release by an external vendor. This role will assist the internal development team in implementing application updates, fixing issues, preparing releases, maintaining documentation, and supporting day-to-day application needs. The position is suitable for a developer who is eager to learn the application, work with senior developers and vendors, and contribute to keeping the application stable, secure, user-friendly, and ready for future business needs.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Application Development and Support

a. Assist in maintaining, enhancing, and supporting the fantasy sports mobile application.
b. Help develop and implement application updates based on business requirements, user feedback, sports season needs, and operational priorities.
c. Support application features such as user registration, game participation, scoring, rewards, user account management, and administrative functions under the guidance of senior developers.
d. Help ensure that application changes are reliable, properly tested, and aligned with business and user expectations.

2. System Integration and Vendor Coordination

a. Assist internal teams and external service providers in supporting application integrations needed for payments, sports data, reporting, and other business functions.
b. Help review vendor materials and documentation to understand how the application and related services are configured, supported, and maintained.
c. Escalate integration, system, or service-related issues to senior developers or vendors when needed.
d. Support issue investigation and resolution to help ensure that internal and third-party services continue to meet application needs.

3. Release, Testing, and Production Support

a. Assist in preparing and supporting mobile application updates, including testing, deployment preparation, and post-release checking.
b. Work with QA and senior developers to review testing scenarios for business rules, payments or transaction-related flows, and administrative functions.
c. Help investigate and resolve defects, production issues, and user-related concerns under the guidance of senior developers.
d. Provide end-user support by assisting with user access, account-related concerns, application usage questions, reported issues, and basic troubleshooting.
e. Support monitoring activities after releases and help document recurring issues or improvement opportunities.

4. Security, Compliance, and Risk Awareness

a. Follow secure development practices, coding standards, and company guidelines when working on assigned tasks.
b. Support proper handling of user information, access permissions, and transaction-related processes.
c. Help identify and report risks or issues related to application changes, third-party services, compliance requirements, and production stability.

5. Knowledge Transfer and Documentation

a. Participate in vendor knowledge transfer activities to learn the application, support process, and key dependencies.
b. Help maintain technical documentation, support notes, testing notes, issue resolution steps, and release-related records.
c. Assist in documenting lessons learned, recurring issues, and support procedures to help the company support future application updates in-house.

6. Team Collaboration and Continuous Learning

a. Work closely with senior developers, QA, support teams, vendors, and business users involved in the application.
b. Participate in planning discussions for future enhancements, seasonal updates, service provider changes, and production support activities.
c. Continuously improve technical skills, application knowledge, documentation habits, and problem-solving capabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Technical Skills:

·       Experience in mobile application development for iOS and Android, including support for customer-facing app features and release activities.

·       Experience in backend application development, APIs, databases, and administration tools.

·       Basic understanding of cloud-hosted services, deployment environments, monitoring, and production support activities.

·       Working knowledge with payment, wallet, and on-ramp related services used to support user funding, transactions, and platform revenue flows is an advantage.

·       Working knowledge with blockchain-related concepts such as wallet connectivity, transaction tracking, and related third-party services is an advantage.

·       Basic understanding with source code management, application release processes, testing support, issue tracking, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Soft Skills:

·       Willingness to learn, take ownership of assigned tasks, and contribute to reliable application support.

·       Good communication skills when working with senior developers, vendors, business users, QA, security, cloud, and support teams.

·       Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with release timelines, vendor coordination, production priorities, and changing business needs.

·       Detail-oriented, proactive, and open to feedback when identifying issues, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.

Preferred Qualifications

·       Exposure to fantasy sports, gaming, fintech, payment-related applications, sports data, or consumer mobile applications is an advantage.

·       Exposure to cloud-based systems, application deployment, monitoring, and incident support is preferred.

Minimum Experience/Training:

·       At least 2–3 years of software development experience, preferably with mobile applications, web systems, backend services, or customer-facing platforms.

·       Experience supporting assigned development tasks, fixing issues, testing changes, and documenting work under guidance from senior developers.

·       Experience or exposure to vendor-delivered applications, knowledge transfer activities, documentation review, or internal support transition is an advantage.

·       Experience or exposure to applications with payments, transactions, active users, or revenue-generating features is preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

·       May require work beyond normal business hours during scheduled releases, production support activities, urgent issues, vendor transition activities, or major sports season launch periods, under the guidance of senior team members.