Senior Software Developer Consultant

Inter-American Development Bank; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Leaves and vacations

Health insurance

Savings plan

Relocation and visa support

On-site position with teleworking

Development opportunities

Health and well-being benefits

Job summary

IDB Group in Washington, DC seeks a Senior Software Developer Consultant to shape and modernize digital solutions for Portfolio Management. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive architectural decisions, and ensure scalable, secure software aligned with institutional guidelines.

You will translate complex business needs into robust technical solutions, set development standards, and guide teams through technical challenges to optimize interoperability and performance across the product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrated expertise in software development and API/web services.
• Proficiency in authentication/authorization standards (SAML, OAuth, WebAuth, ADFS).
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for multidisciplinary teams including developers, AI engineers, data scientists, and product designers.
• Align architecture with enabler teams to follow institutional guidelines.
• Oversee hands-on software engineering, ensure scalability, security, and code quality.

Skills

C# & .NET

API development

SOA & microservices

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

CI/CD

Leadership

Communication

Education

Master's degree in CS/IT

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI

SoapUI/ReadyAPI

Fiddler

Job description

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 a Senior Software Developer Consultant in the Technology and Transformation Department (TTD), you will play a key role in shaping, developing, and modernizing digital solutions that support Portfolio Management across the organization. You’ll provide technical leadership and work closely with cross-functional teams—including product, business, UX, and development—to design and deliver scalable, reliable, and user-centered solutions that strengthen portfolio management, monitoring, and decision-making.

You’ll bring strong technical expertise and a strategic mindset to guide architectural decisions, connect systems and data, and support the modernization and integration of Portfolio Management solutions. Your ability to translate complex business needs into robust technical solutions, establish development best practices, and guide teams through technical complexity will be essential to improving interoperability and performance, ensuring solution quality and scalability, and continuously evolving the product.

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:Master’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Computer Sciences, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience: Atleast 5 yearsof demonstrated expertise in software development, building and consuming APIs and web services (SOA, REST, XML, JSON, OData), with strong knowledge of authorization/authentication standards (SAML, OAuth, WebAuth, ADFS). Skilled in API tracing using SoapUI, ReadyAPI, and Fiddler, and documenting with Swagger/OpenAPI. Experienced developing applications on Microsoft Azure and AWS, with hands‑on use of cloud‑native integration services including Service Bus, Event Hub/Grid, Logic Apps, App Services (Web Apps & Functions), API Management Service, and SignalR.
• Additional Knowledge:1) Proficiency in AI and generative AI technologies and their applications; and 2) Understanding of ethical considerations and the responsible use of AI.
• Languages: You are proficient in English and in another Bank official language (Spanish, Portuguese, and/or French)

Required Expertise

• Software development: Proven hands-on experience with C# and the .NET stack, with strong programming skills and demonstrated proficiency in software design, design patterns, clean architecture, and integration patterns.
• Architecture: Solid understanding and practical experience with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices, including implementation using serverless and containerized infrastructure.
• DevOps and infrastructure: Ability to implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Data management: Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases.
• Quality assurance: Knowledge of automated testing—including unit, integration, end-to-end, and contract testing—and frameworks such as xUnit and Playwright. A quality-driven mindset is essential.
• Artificial intelligence: Knowledge of LLM integration, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures. Familiarity with Python, machine learning, and deep learning is highly desirable.
• Development tools: Proficiency with code-versioning and issue-tracking tools; familiarity with the Atlassian ecosystem is preferred.
• Leadership and collaboration: Ability to lead agile, cross-functional teams, strengthen team members’ capabilities, and promote effective collaboration in support of business and technology needs.
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including technical writing, documentation, and diagramming.

Requirements

Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries . We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents).

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.

Type of contract and duration

International consultant Full-Time, 12 months (up to 48 months, subject to eligibility).

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 package.
• Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract + gender-neutral parental leave.
• Health Insurance: The IDB Group provides a monthly allowance to supplement 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.
• On-siteposition with the occasional flexibility of teleworking.
• Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile, such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
• Health and well-being: Access to our Health Services Center that provides preventive care and health education for employees.
• Other office amenities (as available): Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, spouse career support, and others.

Our culture

At the IDB Group, 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 with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us [e-mail] .