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About the role
As a Scrum Master at Kuda, you will play a pivotal role in driving delivery velocity, operational excellence, and agile maturity across our engineering organization. Operating within a high-growth scale-up environment, you will be embedded with large cross-functional teams of 15 to 20 engineers, product managers, and designers. Your mission is to champion agile principles, eliminate delivery friction, and foster a high-trust, safe environment where teams consistently produce high-quality financial software. You will serve as the bridge between high-level delivery milestones and day-to-day execution, ensuring squads stay aligned with organizational objectives while navigating the dynamic complexities of the FinTech space.
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Responsibilities
- Facilitate core Scrum ceremonies—including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives—for larger cross-functional teams.
- Coach squad members and product owners on agile best practices, backlog prioritization, user story splitting, and effective capacity estimation.
- Cultivate a team culture grounded in psychological safety, active accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
- Proactively identify and resolve delivery blockers, dependencies, and cross-team bottlenecks to maintain high execution velocity.
- Partner with engineering leads to optimize squad workflows and reduce delivery friction across sprint cycles.
- Utilize delivery metrics (such as velocity, burn-down trends, lead time, cycle time, and DORA metrics) to drive data-informed continuous improvement.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leadership to ensure sprint goals directly map to high-level product roadmaps.
- Maintain transparent, real-time visibility into sprint progress, risks, and dependencies for key business stakeholders.
- Guide teams through the rapid pace and shifting priorities characteristic of a fast-growing FinTech scale-up.
- Support squads in maintaining technical excellence and security-first engineering practices without sacrificing delivery momentum.
- Ensure agile processes account for necessary regulatory, compliance, and quality standard checks typical of high-throughput financial systems.
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