Remote
Job Functions:
• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services.
• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to build and deploy new, cutting-edge features for our Shopify storefronts and consumer facing websites as well as interfaces to eCommerce and consumer marketing systems and platforms.
Job Requirements:
Essential:
• Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e., Scrum, Kanban) and understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Solid knowledge of all web technologies, especially web services, web applications, Service Oriented Architectures, and network/web protocols
• Experience in software development in following programming languages Javascript, React, Node.js, PHP, or other languages, Shopify a plus
• In depth understanding of Shopify or general eCommerce platforms and consumer marketing technologies
• Experience with authentication and authorization technologies a plus
• Working knowledge of understanding penetration frameworks and fuzzers
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience with performance testing
Desirable:
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Demonstrated excellent technical writing skills and project/program management experience