We improve lives

The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.

About this position

As Senior Software Developer Consultant in the Technology and Transformation Department, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering cutting-edge learning and knowledge products. You’ll lead cross-functional teams—including AI specialists, data scientists, and developers—to build scalable, high-impact solutions using emerging technologies.

Beyond technical execution, you'll bring a strategic mindset to connect people, data, and systems through cohesive, cloud-based architectures. Your ability to develop robust solutions and guide teams through complexity will be essential to accelerate innovation and improve how knowledge flows across the organization.

What you’ll do

• Technical leadership of multidisciplinary teams: Guide the product team—composed of developers, AI engineers, data scientists, and product design specialists (research, UX, UI)—by providing strategic vision, technical direction, and making key decisions to ensure product feasibility and success.
• Technical alignment with architecture and enabler teams: Work closely with Architecture, Security, Data, and Integration teams to ensure all technical and product decisions are validated and aligned with institutional guidelines.
• Hands-On Software engineering excellence and code quality: Oversee the technical development process to ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and secure. Lead by example through hands-on coding and code reviews, promote best practices in development, enforce technical standards, and support the implementation of automated testing and high code quality.
• Management of the product’s technical roadmap: Define and maintain the technical planning in coordination with Product Leads, ensuring alignment with goals and deliverables.
• Technology stack evaluation and infrastructure alignment: Analyze the compatibility of new functionalities with the existing technology infrastructure and identify necessary improvements to the stack.
• Scalability and performance: Ensure the system can scale to meet increasing user and data volumes, monitoring key performance indicators to maintain optimal speed and responsiveness.
• Integration capabilities: Verify that the product integrates smoothly with other systems and applications, using an API-first approach to enable seamless data exchange and functional integration.
• Risk identification and mitigation: Identify and resolve technical challenges, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure development remains on track with the necessary resources to address technological risks.
• Working with a product mindset: Work with a product mindset in agile environments, leading technical planning, organizing team tasks, and ensuring smooth communication with development teams, internal clients, and other key areas—with a focus on continuous value delivery.

What you'll need

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related field.

Experience: Minimum of two years of clearly demonstrated skills in the following areas:

• Proficiency building and consuming APIs and/or web services (SOA, REST, XML, JSON, OData), including authorization and authentication standards (SAML, OAuth, WebAuth, ADFS) as well as tracing APIs using SoapUI, ReadyAPI or Fiddler. As well as documenting the API using Swagger and OpenAPI standards.
• Proficiency developing applications using cloud providers like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS). Expertise on working with cloud-native integration services in Azure such as Service Bus, Event Hub/Grid, Logic Apps, App Services (Web Apps and Functions), API Management Service, SignalR, etc.
• Proven experience with C# and .Net stack. Strong programming skills as well as proficiency in software design, design patterns, clean architecture and integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of SOA and/or microservices architectures as well as their correspondent implementation using serverless or containerized infrastructures.
• Familiarity with modern web development concepts/frameworks such as SPA, SPFx, Angular, Dojo, etc. Experience developing frontend is also highly desirable or familiarity with Typescript/Javascript.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience making automated tests (unit, integration, e2e, contract) and frameworks like xUnit, Playwright. Quality driven mindset.
• Experience integrating and consuming LLM, prompting engineering and RAG architectures. Knowledge of machine learning/deep learning is desirable too. Familiarity with Python is highly desirable. 
• Experience with code versioning and issue tracking tools (Atlassian environment is preferred)
• Experience working leading agile cross-functional team. Helping other teammates strengthen their skill sets and work together to get the best end results to support business and technology needs.
• Soft Skills: Excellent documentation (writing and diagramming), interpersonal, and communication skills.

Requirements

Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.

Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.

Languages: You are proficient in English and in another Bank official language (Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French)

Type of contract and duration

International consultant: International consultant Full-Time, on site, 12 months (up to 36 months); or National Consultant (Local Remote Modality), remote, 12 months (up to 36 months).

What we offer

The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee's life. These benefits include:

• A competitive compensation packages.
• Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave.
• Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
• Savings plan: ​​​​​​​The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
• We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
• Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
• Health and wellbeing:  Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
• Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.

Our culture

At the IDB, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions.

In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us at accommodations@iadb.org.