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Position Overview
We are searching for a confident, poised, self-motivated and creative Software Development Engineer, Senior! Does this sound like you? We need a teammate that believes good communication is vital to driving change and open to contribute to a cultivated team that makes a difference in lives across the country by delivering applications that drive the underwriting teams at Freddie Mac. We are your next destination employer! Apply now and learn why there’s #MoreAtFreddieMac!
Our Impact
As the Single-Family Underwriting IT Team, we work on projects for critical Freddie Mac core applications. We engage with project team that’s comprised of business, analysis, testing, and infrastructure partners, all working together to enhance the capabilities of these systems.
Your Impact
Your work falls into four primary categories Project Leadership, software development, DevOps, and Application Support.
Partner with Single Family Architecture to define technical solutions to complex business issues that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate best practices.
Provide technical guidance to the project team. Lead design and code reviews.
Engage with business to discuss issues and document or explain technical solutions in a simplified meaningful way.
Agile evangelist, work as a part of a high performing agile team and help others to comply with the department application standards and general industry based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
Contribute and participate in design and code reviews.
Understand Business Requirements, participate in Requirements Analysis, design applications based on System Requirements and Architecture, prototype and proof of concept as necessary, develop, unit test, create and help maintain an automation suite, and deploy application enhancements.
Build Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE frameworks, Docker and Open Shift, EKS/AWS platform.
Comply with the department application standards and general industry-based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
Build test automation suite to fully test the applications and features.
Position requires strong analytical skills, software engineering process skills, and the understanding of XML and creation of XML test data.
Position requires experience with GUI technologies such as Angular, strong back-end expertise with Spring Framework, MongoDB/Atlas and AWS services and technologies.
Contribute in creating delivery pipelines for newly created Micro Services on EKS platforms.
Support building Micro Service practices within development group with objective to create standards, tools and training other developers (GUI and backend systems).
Support Freddie Mac’s core applications in providing Level 3 support, which includes providing fixes to production defects. Quickly evaluate defects, investigate cause and come up with solutions to remediate. Production support is a matrix-based organizational support, and the individual needs to clearly communicate progress and issues to matrix manager.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired
Minimum of 5-years of experience in software development; 3 or more years of experience working in Agile, Lean/Kanban, or Scaled Agile organization
•5+ years of experience in development of Applications and Web Services using the Java EE, Angular & XML. Ability to independently perform all developer duties from Analysis to deployment to post-production defect fixing
3+ years of hands-on experience in Spring Framework (Spring Boot), CI/CD frameworks, Apigee, Autosys/Shell scripting
Java presentation frameworks experience – STRUTS or Angular or similar frameworks
Integration and design experience using Web Services /REST and EJB preferably on Kubernetes
Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc
Experience in creating backend frameworks is huge plus
Experience in using relational and no-SQL databases like DB2 & MONGO
Strong experience in using Angular
Hands-on test automation experience
Proficient in RXJS for reactive programming within Angular applications
Experienced in solving complex problems using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular
Familiar with testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito for effective unit testing
Experienced in building and consuming APIs, contributing to robust and scalable solutions
DevOps and MicroServices - preferred
Hands-on experience with Build and Deployment tools and languages – MAVEN, Gradle, ANT, Shell script, Jenkins, EKS - Preferred
Mortgage and/or financial services industry experience a plus - preferred
Prior Freddie Mac experience a plus - preferred
Key to success in this role
Works under minimal supervision. Able to provide technical guidance to the team
Good communication and team player. Strong written and oral communications skills
Has business acumen to fully understand and help to shape requirements
Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as primary goal.
Innovative in providing solutions, likes to take on challenges with calculated risk
Quick learner of new technologies and tools
Not a just developer, but a developer with a mindset to think holistically to build a reliable, flexible, and well performing system.
Customer Focus – Engage with internal Single Family business partners to learn and deliver on their needs
Partnership – Align with several IT partners, including the Architecture, Infrastructure, and Support teams in delivering easily maintainable solutions
Drive for Execution – Focus on results that meet the business and corporate needs and moves the company to its future desired state
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical and mental disability, pregnancy, ethnicity, genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal, state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Time-type:Full timeFLSA Status:ExemptFreddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $127,000 - $191,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.Similar Jobs
What We Do
Freddie Mac is serving America’s homebuyers, homeowners and renters by financing the creation and preservation of more affordable homeownership and rental opportunities, providing liquidity, stability and affordability to the housing market. We are Making Home Possible for families across the nation.
