For our business partner, an ambitious company involved in the development of a complex software ecosystem for e-commerce using the newest technologies, we are looking for a Scrum Master to join their growing team.

Put simply, you’ll be our go-to person for applying scrum to produce high-quality work. Scrum Master duties include managing timelines, resolving problems, and coaching team members on Agile methodologies. 

Responsibilities

• Foster and help maintain a positive mindset and team spirit.
• Help the team tailor and adapt the agile processes and concepts, facilitate adherence to them and ensure compliance.
• Support product owners in defining or refining requirements
• Support the developers in eliminating conflicts and misunderstandings and proactively help to find solutions
• Facilitate the individual team members and team development; help your colleagues discover their strengths and competencies and minimize or alleviate their weaknesses.
• Support a continuous learning mindset inside the agile team and outside it. Help your
• colleagues understand and apply the agile methods and their benefits (and drawbacks).
• Suggest and facilitate the adoption of (new) tools to track and improve team health and
• efficiency.
• Remove obstacles, provide a path to answers, suggest solutions, and be a shield for the team so it can focus on developing outstanding software aligned with the company’s objectives.
• Ensure that user stories meet the previously defined acceptance and quality criteria

Requirements

• Proven experience of 5+ years as hands-on Scrum Master for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Knowledge of the agile mindset, processes, methods, and frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban).
• Coach the development team, conduct and facilitate scrum ceremonies
• Knowledge of patterns and techniques for monitoring and facilitating efficiently the process (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs)
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines.
• Previous experience working with OKRs is a plus.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Ability to facilitate and run effective meetings
• Self-starter with the ability to balance many tasks with changing priorities
• Proven ability to handle a wide variety of tasks and successfully prioritize work
• Professionally experienced with project and people management
• Excellent English communication skills – both spoken and written
• Background in computer science, (business) psychology, cultural studies, or economics

Benefits

• Be in a company where you can make a difference: you’ll have the freedom to innovate and quickly adopt new ideas.
• You can work in a flexible office//remote arrangement in our offices located in Bucharest’s Old City Center. We encourage a free and healthy office culture.
• A bespoke career development plan, which includes continuous personal development through courses.
• Other goodies like 23 vacation days, meal tickets, top-notch health subscription, bi-monthly office get-togethers, a monthly team sponsored lunches, short Fridays & more