Job Description:
You'll be working remotely, but still feel very much like part of a close-knit team. Whether working on exciting. new projects or digging deeper into one we made earlier, we're going to ensure that you create your very best work. We've got this remote working thing nailed, we engage with staff using Slack, Hangouts, virtual coffee breaks and beers. You've never felt more part of a team, yet similarly you'll have the flexibility to have that 2 hour gym visit in the middle of the day should you want to.
You'll be furnished with the very latest in equipment, but should you wish to use your own, then that's cool with us.
The ideal candidate will:
Understand a problem and choose a solution that works in context of the technology, budget and clients needs
Communicate ideas and problems to peers and clients
Requirements and Responsibilities:
- Gain a quick understanding of the technical and functional aspects of a project and how best to use the team to deliver on them.
- Guide and coach the Scrum Team to deliver complex projects and services to our customers.
Report directly to our Director of Operations
- Get team to a high performing level by recognising areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate development techniques.
- Coach the team in self-organisation, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicate effectively, both internally and externally working within the team.
- Work with Scrum Team, as well as management and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support project and product teams.
- Resolve team impediments to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organisation.
- Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organisation.
- Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review etc.
Qualifications / Skills:
- Exemplify and promote Agile values and principles
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation 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
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
Education, Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organisation and an understanding of facilitation techniques
- Intermediate working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, and Excel
- Experience of working on complex software projects with many moving parts.
- Proven experience of taking ownership of projects
Company Benefits
- Optional private Vitality healthcare insurance and telephone access to GPs
25 days holiday
- Optional flu jabs to support staff through winter
- Pension contributions
- Employee referral scheme
- New business finder’s fee
- Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
- Eye care (annual eye test)
- Closure of the office between Christmas and New Year
- Optional office attendance -if you do come in you’ll be in a very cool office 2 minutes from the beach in Brighton!
Interview Process
- We have an initial chat
- We ask you to complete our dev test (it requires Laravel experience)
- You complete the test (takes around 3 hours) and send us a link
- We review your test
- You have a chart with 1 or 2 senior devs and our PM
- We offer you a job
- You start work
- We all live happily ever after
