*** CANDIDATES MUST CURRENTLY LIVE IN COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF BALTIMORE, MD ***
*** THIS IS A FULL-TIME POSITION. CONSULTANTS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED ***
This position is HYBRID with in office a minimum of 2 days/week.
Our client is looking for a sharp, motivated full-stack engineer. You won't get lost in a sprawling org chart or buried in meetings. You'll be part of a small team of top performers who own their work end-to-end, ship things that matter, and push each other to grow.
Here's what makes this role different:
- Design and ship production-grade REST APIs at the core of our platform strategy
- Contribute to open-source MCP servers and CLI tooling with real external reach
- Work in a purposeful, well-supported stack: C# .NET Core + React + AWS
- Bring your curiosity about AI/LLM and agentic frameworks to a team actively building in that space (we use Claude Code daily)
- Do it all in service of a mission that genuinely improves people's financial lives
Job Overview
The Mid-Level Software Engineer (Full-Stack) will play a key role in building and evolving the product ecosystem. Operating with a high degree of autonomy within a supportive mentor/mentee relationship with their Technical Lead, this engineer will be instrumental in designing and delivering robust REST APIs, contributing to agentic tooling, and advancing workflow capabilities and user experience for their customers. You will be part of a small team of top performers who are passionate about our core values and excited about our mission.
What you will do | Most important responsibilities of this role
- REST API Development – Design, build, and maintain production-grade REST APIs that serve as the foundation of company's API-first strategy.
- Agentic & Developer Tooling – Contribute to the development and release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and CLI tooling designed to help customers rapidly integrate and adopt the company's API.
- Full-Stack Feature Development – Develop and maintain full-stack features using C# .NET Core on the backend and React on the front end, ensuring high quality across approximately 75% backend/API and 25% front-end work.
- Software Maintenance & Iteration – Maintain and enhance legacy software systems while contributing to new feature development, ensuring sustained performance and alignment with business needs.
- Agile Collaboration – Work closely within the Engineering/Product organization in an agile environment, collaborating with product managers, senior engineers, and the Technical Lead to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Quality Assurance & Testing – Write and execute unit tests to ensure code stability, reliability, and performance.
- Continuous Learning – Stay current with emerging technologies — including AI/LLM tooling, agentic frameworks, and cloud-native development practices — and bring forward innovative approaches to product and tooling challenges.
How you will do it | The ideal hire will…
- Backend & API Excellence – Leverage deep expertise in C# .NET Core (and/or comparable OOP languages such as Java) to build reliable, maintainable backend services and REST APIs integrated with SQL relational databases.
- Open-Source Developer Experience – Contribute to the design and distribution of MCP servers and CLI tools as open-source software, enabling external customers to accelerate their adoption of API platform.
- Cloud Fluency – Work confidently within AWS environments — navigating AWS products, services, and tooling to troubleshoot issues and support operational needs.
- Version Control & CI/CD Awareness – Use Git-based version control tools (Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar) effectively for collaborative, team-based development, with an understanding of CI/CD concepts sufficient to identify and help resolve pipeline issues.
- AI/LLM Orientation – Bring curiosity and practical experience with AI/LLM technologies — whether in building AI-powered features or integrating LLM capabilities into software products — to help drive agentic roadmap forward. Our engineering team actively uses Claude Code.
- Autonomous Yet Collaborative – Thrive in a high-autonomy, mentor/mentee dynamic — taking ownership of work while leveraging the Technical Lead and senior team members for guidance and growth.
Requirements
Essential Functions:
As a Mid-Level Software Engineer, Full-Stack, you will:
- Design and develop REST APIs and backend services
- Build and contribute to open-source MCP servers and CLI tooling
- Develop and maintain front-end features using React (~25% of role)
- Work as part of an agile, cross-functional engineering/product team
- Write and maintain unit tests
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across AWS environments and CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain and improve legacy software systems
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence
Required Education and Experience
- 3–5 years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience with C# .NET Core development (OOP languages such as Java considered)
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs
- Experience with React and front-end UI development
- Experience with SQL and relational databases
- Experience writing Unit Tests
- Familiarity with AWS products and tools (troubleshooting and navigation)
- Experience with Git-based version control (Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar) in a collaborative team environment
- Conceptual understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the ability to troubleshoot pipeline issues
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent)
Additional/Preferred Experience would include.
- Experience building or working with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — strong plus
- Experience with Entity Framework or similar ORM frameworks — strong plus
- Experience with AI/LLM integration — either building AI-powered software or delivering AI-enabled product features — strongly encouraged
- Experience developing CLI tooling (framework agnostic)
- Familiarity with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway
- Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
- Experience with DataDog or similar observability platforms
- Familiarity with SSO, SAML, and/or OAuth authentication protocols
- Experience with C++
- Experience coding in a secure environment
- Experience with XML/JSON
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience in a start-up environment
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The Consortium, Inc.
The Consortium is a staffing and professional services organization focused on the Information Technology industry. Our experience and structure allow us to provide our undivided attention to our client’s business challenges and resource needs while providing the best career guidance and opportunities to our employees and consultants. Our goal and mission is to provide cost effective solutions while allowing our clients the time to focus on projects and deliverables and not sorting through stacks of unqualified resumes.
The Consortium’s business practices, decades of knowledge, and extensive industry experience enable us to provide talented highly skilled people who make a significant contribution to our customer’s objectives in a very short period of time. The Consortium is managed by four partners averaging over 17 years experience in information technology recruiting and professional services management. The Consortium’s agile and responsive team is capable of quickly identifying and screening properly qualified people for all technical skill sets saving our clients valuable time when reviewing candidates.
We offer a wide array of services including:
Contingency Permanent Placement- HeadHunting
We identify, evaluate and introduce employees for your permanent staff. We earn our fee when the individual becomes your employee and remains on your payroll until the guarantee period expires.
Temporary To Permanent
We identify the individual; perform an evaluation; introduce the applicant and you make the selection. We will put the person on our payroll for a defined period of time after which you make her/him a permanent member of your staff. The specific terms will be negotiated on a case by case basis which may include no additional fee or a reduced fee depending on the initial terms. The advantage of this approach allows you to evaluate the individual on a daily basis before deciding to “permanentize” her/him and, to spread your costs out over an extended period.
Staff Augmentation
We will provide you a contractor for a temporary period of time. This approach is implemented when the client: 1. needs people to complete a project and has no anticipated need after completion; 2. does not have a permanent “head count” budget; or 3. when the client has been unable to identify an individual with a required expertise on an expeditious basis. During the term of the assignment, should the client wish to permanently employ the contractor, The Consortium will be pleased to negotiate terms amenable to the client.
Retained Search
Retained searches are entered into when the client desires fully focused recruitment of a key individual. This arrangement requires that The Consortium use its full resources including its network of friends of the company, sourcing and researching. The Consortium commits to a one hundred percent effort on behalf of the retainer client only and guarantees that applicants identified for this undertaking will not be referred to other clients until a release is granted. The Consortium, after identifying candidates, will have an appropriate Advisory Board member assist in evaluation. A resume, references and a Consortium profile will be provided to the client prior to interview and The Consortium personnel will remain intimately involved throughout the entire process.
20 to 49 employees
http://www.consortiuminc.com/