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.
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.
Operational & Delivery Excellence
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.
Stakeholder Alignment & Scale-Up Execution
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.
Compliance & Quality Governance
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.
Requirements
Proven Agile Expertise: 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in dynamic technology environments.
Scale-Up & FinTech Background: Demonstrable track record of delivering value within high-growth scale-up companies, preferably in the FinTech sector.
Large Tribe Leadership: Deep experience facilitating and guiding multi-disciplinary squads (Engineers, QA, Designers, Product Managers).
Hard Skills
Deep expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and modern scaling frameworks.
Advanced proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and delivery tracking tools.
Strong grasp of software delivery metrics (e.g., flow metrics, DORA metrics) to measure squad health and output.
Practical understanding of modern software delivery practices (e.g., CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing).
Soft Skills
Empathetic Leadership: A dedication to empowering teams, removing obstacles, and nurturing an inclusive environment.
Clear Communication: Ability to articulate project status, risks, and process optimizations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
Conflict Resolution & Adaptability: Skillful at navigating team dynamics, resolving friction, and pivoting gracefully in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
Pension
Career development & growth
Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
Group life insurance
Medical insurance
Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
Perkbox
Goalr - employee wellness app
Award winning L&D training
We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule