Senior Engineer (Scrum) Job at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Engineer (Scrum)

Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

The Role

• Flutterwave is looking for an experienced scrum master to oversee and guide scrum teams.
• The scrum master's responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.
• A scrum master that has a firm grasp of agile practices and the ability to effectively manage and mentor development teams. An outstanding scrum master with excellent interpersonal, project management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities 
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Use agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Train and mentor the squad teams to follow agile principles, and practices.
• Facilitate internal communication and effectively monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups
• Effectively tracking and communicating project progress, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Requirements
Required competency and skillset to be a waiver:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience as an Agile coach or scrum master.
• Certified scrum master, SAFe preferred.
• Expertise in agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Proficient in using JIRA to effectively manage Agile-based projects
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with software development