Api Developer Consultant

Key skills:

•  Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles.
•  Experience creating clear and comprehensive API documentation.
• Knowledge of common protocols and data formats, such as HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, XML, and GraphQL.
• Experience with testing frameworks for API testing.
• Awareness of API security best practices.
• Experience implementing security measures, such as encryption and secure authentication.
• Ability to optimize API performance and handle scalability issues.
• Familiarity with caching strategies and load balancing
• Cloud: MS Azure (AWS is a plus). Should demonstrate relevant work experience and skills designing and maintaining cloud solutions with IaaS or PaaS. With good understanding of the network, security, and cost implications.
•  Modern programming languages: .NET, C#, Angular preferred
•  Database: MSSQL, Azure SQL, CosmosDB
• Cloud IaC: Terraform, ARMs, Azure CLI, Powershell.
• CI/CD: Platform administration and management: Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, JFrog.
• Modern Authentication: Azure AD, Azure BC2, with a good knowledge and use of modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth2).
• APIs: Good knowledge of RESTful and HTTP Protocol, Azure API Management and Swagger/ OpenAPI.
• Monitoring: Datadog (Preferred), Azure Monitoring

Requirements:

• Citizenship: You must be a citizen of one of our 48-member countries, and a citizen or permanent resident of a country where the IDB has a Country Office
• 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:

• Type of contract: Consultant Full Time
• Location: On Site.
•  Length of contract: 12 months. Contract may be extended up to 36 months based on business requirements and consultant's performance.

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.
• Leave 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.
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
• Health and wellbeing:  Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
• Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
• Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.

Our culture

At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org  to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.

Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.

About the IDB Group

The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.

About IDB

We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.

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