- Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience.
- Full professional fluency in both Spanish and English — enough to lead technical discussions and produce documentation in both. This is essential, not a nice-to-have.
- Demonstrated full-stack experience with React, Python/FastAPI, and MongoDB or closely comparable technologies.
- Experience integrating with third-party platforms and systems: REST API design, data schemas, and data export/import workflows.
- Familiarity with conversational AI and LLM-based applications, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector search.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform preferred) and DevOps practices including infrastructure-as-code.
- Based in the Americas, or able to offer substantial working-hours overlap with Central America (GMT-6).
- A track record of delivering high-quality software, ideally in resource-constrained or international development contexts.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a small, distributed team, making pragmatic technical decisions under ambiguity while working directly with partners.
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including chamber staff and government counterparts.
The stack you'll work in:
- Frontend: React with Material-UI, TypeScript
- Backend: FastAPI (Python)
- Database: MongoDB with vector search
- AI/LLM: Google Gemini (and potentially open-weight models) for conversational AI
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run), Pulumi for infrastructure-as-code
- Integration targets: the chambers' labor intermediation platforms, via APIs and data export/import workflows
Prior experience with these technologies or comparable stacks is required.
You'll be the forward deployed engineer on this pilot: embedded with the partners, shipping in their environment, and an integrated member of Tabiya's dev team.
Across roughly 40 days:
- Integrations (~12 days) — Build the CCIT and CCIC integrations with Tabiya's lead developer and the chamber-side IT firm: integration components against agreed API contracts and data schemas, data export/import workflows, connecting their platforms to our profiling, taxonomy and matching modules, and debugging in their environments.
- Configuration and Spanish localization (~10 days) — Own the standalone deployment for Choloma, and lead localization across all three chambers: UI, conversational content and prompts in Honduran Spanish, plus the occupational and skills taxonomy (ESCO mapping).
- Embedded technical liaison (~8 days) — Bridge the chambers' IT teams and platform providers (Spanish) with Tabiya's engineering and product teams (English): demos, technical working sessions, requirements, data schemas, and translating decisions and constraints both ways.
- Testing and QA (~5 days) — Integration and acceptance testing with chamber counselors and IT teams in Spanish, including review of conversational quality and skills extraction accuracy.
- Documentation and hand-off (~5 days) — Bilingual docs, deployment guides and training materials so the local IT firm can take over hosting and operation.
You'll report to the World Bank task team on progress and deliverables; day-to-day coordination runs through Tabiya's engineering sprints.
Success looks like: integrations live at CCIT and CCIC, a working standalone instance at CCICH, a tool that holds up in natural Honduran Spanish, and a hand-off complete enough that the chambers keep running it without you.
- Contracted and paid directly by the World Bank Group as a Short-Term Consultant.
- 100% remote, part-time — about 2 days a week, roughly 40 person-days through December 2026. Sits comfortably alongside other work.
- Flexible schedule within the constraint of meaningful overlap with Central American hours (GMT-6) for working sessions with the chambers.
- Possible short mission(s) to Honduras for on-site work with the chambers' IT teams during integration and pilot launch, subject to World Bank approval and available budget — travel covered.
- Open-source work. All your code goes into Tabiya's public codebase, so your contribution here is portfolio you can point at.
- Real impact. The tool you deploy will be used by returned migrants and jobseekers in three Honduran cities, inside institutions that will keep running it after the pilot ends.
