Excellent Opportunity for Technical Scrum Master with Prowareness

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master to lead cross-functional teams and drive successful delivery of projects within scope, time, and budget. The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with strong organizational and interpersonal skills, capable of managing multiple projects in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Management: Define project scope, goals, and deliverables. Develop detailed project plans, including schedules, milestones, and resource allocation. Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors to ensure flawless project execution, delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget. 

Team Coordination and Communication: Facilitate coordination among the tech team, customer support team, and management. Conduct regular status meetings, report project progress to the CTO, and manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs. 

Risk Management: Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and monitor project risks and issues, ensuring risk management processes are followed. 

Resource Management: Allocate resources effectively, monitor team workload, adjust assignments as needed, and provide guidance and mentorship. 

Quality Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations. Implement and maintain quality control processes, facilitating testing and validation. 

Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive project documentation and prepare project reports, including status updates, performance metrics, and lessons learned. 

Release Management: Plan and coordinate software releases with the DevOps team, ensuring schedules are met and communicating release plans to stakeholders. 

Sprint Planning and Agile Practices: Conduct sprint planning sessions, manage the sprint backlog, and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring Agile best practices are followed. 

Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. 

Vendor and Partner Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and partners, coordinating and overseeing their work.

Customer Feedback Integration: Collect and analyze customer feedback with the customer support team, incorporating it into project planning and development. 

Change Management: Develop and implement change management strategies, effectively handling project changes and communicating them to stakeholders. 

Performance and Metrics Tracking: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and project metrics, analyzing data to identify trends and improvement opportunities. 

Training and Development: Identify training needs, arrange relevant training sessions, and support team members' professional development. 

Product Roadmap Alignment: Ensure project activities align with the overall product roadmap, coordinating with management to adjust project priorities. 

Compliance and Standards: Ensure project activities comply with industry standards and regulations, addressing legal or regulatory issues with the Corporate Lawyer - Legal & Compliance. 

Conflict Resolution: Address and resolve team conflicts promptly, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment. 

Resource Allocation: Ensure optimal allocation and utilization of resources, adjusting as project needs evolve. 

Risk Reporting: Prepare and present risk reports to senior management, ensuring transparent communication of project risks and mitigation plans. 

Onboarding: Send onboarding emails to new tech team members, ensuring a smooth integration into the team.

Qualifications:



• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Engineering, or related field.
• CSM, PSM or similar certification is preferred.
• Proven experience managing projects in an agile or hybrid environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency in project management software such as JIRA, MS Project.

Experience Level: 5+ years in Software Development and Team Leadership

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Project Leader/Team Leader with a strong background in server management, full-stack development using React, Node.js, and PHP. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading teams, managing complex projects, and delivering high-quality software solutions on time. You will be responsible for overseeing the development team, guiding the technical direction, and ensuring optimal performance of servers and web applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and manage a team of developers in full-stack development projects.

Oversee server management including setup, optimisation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Ensure the timely delivery of software projects while maintaining high coding standards.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including designers, DevOps, and QA engineers to ensure seamless project execution.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members in Reactjs, Node.js, PHP and Python.

Manage project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.

Ensure proper documentation and version control practices.

Review code for quality, scalability, and security.

Identify and mitigate risks in projects and propose solutions to technical challenges.

Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices in server management and software development.

Technical Expertise:

Solid experience in React.js and Node.js for full-stack web development.

Proficiency in PHP and working with popular PHP frameworks (e.g., Laravel, Codeigniter, Core).

Strong understanding of server management (Linux)

, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.), and database management (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).

Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).

Familiarity with containerization (e.g., Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.

Strong problem-solving skills and debugging expertise.

Leadership and Communication:

Proven experience leading software development teams.

Strong project management skills, including Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for cross-team collaboration.

Ability to mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in software development with a focus on React.js, Node.js, and PHP.

Minimum of 2 years of experience in a leadership or managerial role.

Certification in Project Management (PMP, Agile, or equivalent) is a plus.

ROLE/SKILLS:

• Design, estimate, and code new features. This is primarily a coding position.
• Architect new applications, and expand existing ones.
• Collaborate on enterprise architecture with other teams at Internet Brands.
• Investigate and fix production issues.
• Define, document, and enforce engineering standards.
• Perform code reviews of your team members’ work.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in software design discussions.
• Participate in sprint planning and other project management meetings.
• Ensure all code that goes to production is of top quality.
• Ensure existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.
• Identify and fix gaps in system reliability, such as production monitoring.
• Continuously improve the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 4+ years with object-oriented programming in PHP.
• 4+ years with front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
• MVC frameworks (Laravel, Yii).
• Experience with modern server components (Memcache, Redis, ActiveMQ, Solr)
• Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
• Consuming and creating web services.
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.

• Designing and building responsive and mobile-friendly websites optimised for different devices and browsers
• Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code using languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, and JavaScript, PHP, Python,
• Implementing and maintaining website content management systems
• Troubleshooting and debugging issues to ensure websites are functioning correctly
• Staying up-to-date with the latest web technologies and industry trends to ensure the website is current and secure
• Creating and managing databases for website functionality
• Ensuring website accessibility and security to protect sensitive data and user information
• Maintaining and updating existing websites
• Testing both new and current website and correcting potential errors that may arise

Roles and Responsibilities

• Plan, architect, integrate, and develop back-end and database driven features using the Python language and frameworks (Django, Flask, Tornado)

• Experience on Micro service architecture

• Strong knowledge on Web services/API

• Strong Knowledge on AWS/Azure, Docker, etc..

• Having great knowledge on software development methodologies, languages, technologies, security threats, etc.

• Create decoupled, interactive web UIs using JavaScript (Angular, Ember, jQuery, React Js)

• Provide technical advise and recommendations for language and software choices

• Develop code that is cross-browser and cross-platform friendly

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure all requirements are met

• Evaluate technologies and manage technical planning

• Support and ongoing development for existing projects

• Provide clean code and proper documentation for each project

• Assists in resolving moderately complex production support problems

• Strong writing and speaking skills (English)

Technical Requirements:

• At least 4+ years experience developing and deploying websites and applications

• Experience with Django

• Experience with Agile/SCRUM practices

• Hands on experience on database like PostgreSQL,MySQL, Mongo db, etc.

• Custom web based application development experience

• Comfortable collaborating with designers, front-end developers and other team members

• Object-oriented design and development strategies

• Must possess a fair, clear understanding of fundamentals and concepts of Magento 1/2, PHP.
• Must have strong experience in Magento Extension development.
• Write well-engineered source code that complies with accepted web standards.
• Strong experience of Magento Best Practices, including experience developing custom extensions and extending third party extensions.
• Thorough functional and code level knowledge of all Magento products and all relevant commerce technologies

What you need to have: