We’re looking for a Scrum Master to help us guide the engineering team and the wider company on how to best use Agile/Scrum practices. The Scrum Master will help us deliver a high-quality product regularly, repeatedly and predictably through relentless focus on the customer, business value, quality and technical excellence.
You will act as Scrum Master for multiple teams with a focus on self-organisation and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, pre-planning, story sizing, release planning, retrospectives and reviews.
You will work with Product Owners to achieve successful delivery against our roadmap and milestones as well as pro-actively remove impediments in the wider company.
Why busuu?
If you want to change the world by providing language learning around the globe and join an amazing team that is already developing a great platform for 35+ million users with 20 million app downloads and 40k+ new users every day than we are the company for you. In addition everyone gets big screens and fast computers, Linux, OSX or PC, up to you but most people have a fully spec'd MacBook Pro. We are sociable company with Friday cocktails and regular team lunches. We have a brand new bright office on the 3rd floor next to Old Street roundabout. We have free private healthcare, pay for your gym membership and offer a generous bonus scheme. And most importantly we have free breakfast every morning and snacks throughout the day!
The role will involve the following responsibilities:
- Own and facilitate the Scrum process across the business
- Set-up and chair sprint planning meetings and retrospectives, sprint/backlog reviews, prioritisation meetings and daily standups
- Anticipate and remove all obstacles blocking progress of projects together with the project owners
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Supporting and educating the product owners, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Work with the CTO and team leads to achieve a consistent framework across busuu's various delivery teams
- Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
- Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and information flow
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
- Empower the teams to self-organize
- Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible
Something about you…
- You will be a Certified Scrum Master
- You have experience of working with more than one scrum team
- You will have a proven track record as a Scrum Master within a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
- Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, continuous Integration, continuous deployment, pairing, automated testing, agile games, planning poker
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with diverse personality types
- Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach
- Experience across both web and mobile platforms
…and something about us
We are the largest social network for language learning, with more than 35 million users worldwide. We offer free and premium paid-for access to audio-visual courses for 12 languages: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and English.
The company is named after the Busuu language of Cameroon. According to an ethnological study from the 1980s, Busuu is spoken by only 8 people!
We are a young team committed to making this start-up company a global hit! If you value the exciting, varied and fast-paced environment so often created within a company in its early days, and are excited at the prospect to bring your skill-sets and do whatever it takes to continually deliver excellent customer experiences, apply now!