Project Manager / SCRUM Master at RChain Cooperative

  • This position has been filled

RChain core development team project manager 

Our team is looking for an experienced project manager / SCRUM Master to join our team as we continue the development of our blockchain project
 If you are an experienced project manager / SCRUM Master with good technical understanding of blockchain technology, please consider joining our team
 

Skills

             Highly skilled with project management: planning, initiating, executing, risk management, resource management, and stakeholder communications

             Ability to manage an Agile team

             Understanding of the software project life-cycle and ability to manage it

             Comfortable working in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment

             Experience with QA, release management, and systems reliability engineering is a plus  

             Experience with JIRA and confluence is a plus

             Experience managing a git workflow is a plus

             Experience managing a distributed team is a plus

Position requirements 

  •  Lead a distributed, Agile development team with backlog grooming
    sprint planning
    stand up facilitation
    management of velocity
  •  Manage the effort to capture, make sense of, and accept feature requirements
    •  Work with stakeholders to capture feature requirements
    •  Facilitate feasibility study of proposed feature requirements
    •  Schedule and resource research and development of new features
    •  Convert and prioritize proposed and feasible feature requirements to the backlog

  •  Act as a community liaison for the core development team
    •  Provide weekly updates on the work of the development team during the RChain community call
    •  Provide, when asked, updates on the development team’s work to the RChain board of directors or other stakeholders
    •  Monitor and respond to conversation in all public discord channels under
      Developer
    •  Plan for and facilitate weekly RNode community test sessions
    •  Maintain the RChain development wiki and Jira for stakeholder use

  •  Manage the release of software
    •  Work with the development team to test and release software at the end of each sprint
    •  Document the contents of the release in release plans

    •  Update the roadmap with the release
    •  Notify RChain communications of the release
    •  Announce the release in relevant developer channels

  •  Manage the RChain public testnet
    •  Manage the SRE team in administration and maintenance of the RChain public
      testnet
    •  Act as a liaison for users of the RChain public testnet

  •  Participate in the work to administer the development team
    •  Review and approve submitted timesheets
    •  Participate in the hiring/firing process as needed
    • Competencies:

    •  Leadership Skills
    •  Communication skills
    •  Technical Knowledge
    •  Organization skills
    •  Attention to Detail
    •  Multitasking

    • Education: 

  • Bachelors degree in a field such as Information Technology, Software Development Management, Software Engineering or Computer Science, or similar
  • Location:
    The position works from a remote location suitable to the incumbent provided they have sufficient and reliable internet access