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Key Responsibilities and Required Skills for Agile Developer

💰 $80,000 - $140,000

Software DevelopmentAgileEngineering

🎯 Role Definition

We are seeking an experienced Agile Developer to join a cross-functional delivery team and help design, build, test, and maintain high-quality software in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environment. The ideal candidate blends strong software engineering skills with practical Agile experience — participating actively in sprint ceremonies, collaborating with product owners and designers, implementing automated pipelines, and continuously improving delivery practices. This role is focused on delivering value quickly and reliably through modern architecture, automation, and test-driven development (TDD/BDD).

📈 Career Progression

Typical Career Path

Entry Point From:

  • Junior Software Developer / Graduate Developer
  • QA Engineer transitioning to development
  • Full Stack Developer

Advancement To:

  • Senior Agile Developer / Senior Software Engineer
  • Technical Lead / Team Lead
  • Solutions Architect
  • Engineering Manager

Lateral Moves:

  • DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer
  • Product Owner / Business Analyst
  • Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Core Responsibilities

Primary Functions

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, testable microservices and backend components using languages and frameworks such as Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, .NET Core, or similar, ensuring alignment with system architecture and product roadmap.
  • Collaborate daily with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, and other developers to translate user stories into technical tasks and deliver working increments each sprint.
  • Participate actively in sprint ceremonies — sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives — to estimate, prioritize, and continuously improve team delivery.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established coding standards and patterns; conduct and participate in regular code reviews to improve quality and share knowledge.
  • Implement automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests (TDD/BDD) to deliver reliable features and enable fast feedback loops for the team.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) to automate build, test, and deployment workflows across development, staging, and production environments.
  • Design and consume RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints with robust versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility strategies using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
  • Containerize applications using Docker and manage orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) or equivalent, ensuring repeatable deployments and environment parity.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production incidents, performing root cause analysis and implementing monitoring, alerting, and remediation automation with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying performance bottlenecks, refactoring legacy code, and recommending architecture enhancements to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Apply cloud-native patterns and manage services on AWS, Azure, or GCP — provisioning infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates) and optimizing cost and performance.
  • Collaborate with security teams to implement secure coding practices, manage secrets, and perform vulnerability scanning and remediation in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead or contribute to sprint-level technical design sessions and architectural reviews, balancing fast delivery with sustainable architecture and technical debt management.
  • Mentor and coach junior developers and peers on best practices, design patterns, testing strategies, and Agile principles to grow team capability and velocity.
  • Drive and support feature toggles, phased rollouts, blue/green and canary deployment strategies to reduce risk when releasing to production.
  • Maintain and evolve observability — logging, tracing, and metrics — to provide actionable insights for operations, feature performance, and user behavior analysis.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials in Confluence or other knowledge repositories to minimize single points of failure.
  • Participate in cross-team integration efforts, API contract negotiations, and data modeling to ensure consistent interfaces and minimize integration friction.
  • Estimate technical effort and risks for user stories and epics, providing transparent progress reporting and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders and product leadership.
  • Support backlog grooming by identifying technical dependencies, breaking down complex initiatives into deliverable stories, and coordinating with product and architecture stakeholders.
  • Foster a culture of automation, continuous delivery, and measurable outcomes by introducing tooling, metrics, and experiments that improve cycle time and quality.
  • Ensure accessibility, internationalization, and performance considerations are integrated into feature design and implementation where applicable.

Secondary Functions

  • Support ad-hoc debugging and incident response across development and operations, contributing to post-incident reviews and corrective action plans.
  • Assist in defining non-functional requirements (security, performance, scalability) and build automated checks into CI/CD to monitor compliance.
  • Contribute to hiring, interviewing, and onboarding of new engineers; help craft technical assessments and evaluate candidate fit for Agile teams.
  • Collaborate with data engineers and analysts to expose business-critical data via APIs and services, and ensure consistent data contracts.
  • Participate in community of practice sessions (DevOps, QA, Frontend) and share learnings to elevate team-wide engineering capabilities.
  • Maintain and improve local development environments, tooling, and scripts to reduce developer friction and increase productivity.
  • Contribute to product roadmap discussions from a technical feasibility and risk perspective, advocating for pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
  • Provide cost and capacity planning inputs for cloud resource usage and suggest optimizations to reduce operational spend.

Required Skills & Competencies

Hard Skills (Technical)

  • Strong programming experience in one or more mainstream languages: Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET Core), JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React, Angular), or similar.
  • Deep understanding and hands-on experience building microservices and API-first architectures (REST, GraphQL) with proper versioning and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
  • Practical experience with containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) and experience deploying services to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • CI/CD pipeline design and automation using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps, including automated testing and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
  • Test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and industrialized unit/integration/e2e testing frameworks (JUnit, Jest, Mocha, Selenium, Cypress).
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
  • Experience with version control and branching strategies using Git (GitFlow, trunk-based development).
  • Knowledge of databases and data storage: relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), and data modeling best practices.
  • Observability and monitoring: logging, metrics, distributed tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Jaeger).
  • Security best practices for application development: OWASP, secure authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT), secret management.
  • Strong debugging, profiling, and performance tuning skills for production systems.
  • Experience with Agile tooling: JIRA, Confluence, Azure Boards for backlog management and documentation.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) is a plus.
  • Experience with front-end frameworks for full-stack developers: React, Angular, or Vue.js.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent verbal and written communication to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Collaborative team player who thrives in cross-functional Agile teams and values feedback and continuous improvement.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset and attention to detail.
  • Ability to estimate, prioritize, and manage work under tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
  • Coaching and mentoring mindset — able to uplift junior engineers and foster a learning culture.
  • Adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, changing environment.
  • Product-oriented thinking with a focus on customer value and measurable business outcomes.
  • Strong stakeholder management and the ability to negotiate technical trade-offs with product and business teams.
  • Proactive ownership and accountability for end-to-end delivery, from design to production support.
  • Continuous learning orientation — keeps skills current with emerging tools, patterns, and best practices.

Education & Experience

Educational Background

Minimum Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Education:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or relevant professional certifications (Certified Scrum Developer, AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer).

Relevant Fields of Study:

  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Applied Mathematics

Experience Requirements

Typical Experience Range: 3–7 years of professional software development experience in Agile teams.

Preferred:

  • 5+ years building production-grade systems, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end delivery.
  • Prior experience working in Scrum or Kanban teams, and a track record of improving delivery processes and quality through automation and best practices.
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