Scrum Master

A bit about us

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Alajuela. Yewbridge Labs builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Founded in 2020, we now have 70 employees.

Our Alajuela team is growing and we are hiring a Scrum Master. This role works with product owners and engineering managers. You'll coach, facilitate and occasionally push back. Our operations teams are in their second year of SAFe, and this role will support the release train and PI planning. Hybrid: two days in the office in Alajuela, the rest from home.

Main duties

• Coordinate release planning with QA and DevOps
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, reviews and retrospectives
• Configure Jira boards, workflows and dashboards
• Help product owners keep the backlog refined and ready
• Coach teams on Scrum and Kanban practices and adjust them to what works
• Track velocity, cycle time and burndown in Jira and explain what the numbers mean
• Spot team health problems early and raise them with engineering managers
• Follow up on retrospective action items so they actually get done

Qualifications

• 2-4 years as a Scrum Master on software development teams
• Ability to coach without formal authority
• Solid working knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD basics

Preferred qualifications

• SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Release Train Engineer certification

Pay and benefits

CRC 1,350,000 to CRC 1,600,000 monthly

• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Training budget
• Stock options
• Flexible hours

Relocation support is available for the right candidate.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Yewbridge Labs.