Senior Software Developer Consultant

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.

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.

• 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
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  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
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  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.

• 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,…