Scrum Master Any Engineer Hybrid

The FreedomPay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services. FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America. FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale. FreedomPay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

The Scrum Master is responsible for facilitating and conducting all sprint ceremonies, supporting 1-2 software engineering teams at FreedomPay. This includes running daily standups, sprint planning, facilitation of sprint retrospectives, and sprint reviews. The primary role is facilitation of the Agile Scrum process, by supporting a team of engineers and analysts through work prioritization, coordination and removing blockers. The Scrum Master works closely with the Product Management team, Team Lead developer and Software Development Managers to ensure sprint deliverables are on track and current development activity aligns with Product Roadmap and priorities.

Primary Job Responsibilities (including but not limited to)

• Foundational understanding of the Agile Manifesto, principles and values
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks, including, but limited, to Scrum and Kanban
• Basic understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience as a Scrum Lead for a minimum of 1-3 years for a software development team utilizing Agile/Scrum principles.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Ability to anticipate issues based on experience to help the team avoid or resolve the issues.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including active listening.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar ticket and project tracking software
• Basic Project Management Skills
• Basic familiarity with team collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Confluence, Monday.com
• Knowledge of and/or experience with writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience providing Scrum Lead Services for multiple teams concurrently.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of the Agile Manifesto, principles and values
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks, including, but limited, to Scrum and Kanban
• Basic understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience as a Scrum Lead for a minimum of 1-3 years for a software development team utilizing Agile/Scrum principles.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Ability to anticipate issues based on experience to help the team avoid or resolve the issues.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including active listening.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar ticket and project tracking software
• Basic Project Management Skills
• Basic familiarity with team collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Confluence, Monday.com
• Knowledge of and/or experience with writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience providing Scrum Lead Services for multiple teams concurrently.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CMS) – Scrum Alliance
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) – scrum.org
• ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) – IC Agile
• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) – Scaled Agile

As the fastest growing commerce company in the industry, we offer the opportunity for tremendous upward mobility within the company as well as development and professional growth opportunities. FreedomPay’s fulltime roles provide exceptional benefits including medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage, Life Insurance, Retirement Plans with company match, commission sharing plan, flexible hybrid working environment, and great parental and other leave programs. All positions must be able to successfully pass a background check as well as a credit check.

FreedomPay is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.