Software Engineering, Technical Lead

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Are you ready to help build and evolve the next generation of trading technology? We’re looking for a Dev Tech Lead to support the development and enhancement of applications that drive position, risk, and P&L for our trading desks. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers and product partners to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions, contribute to modern cloud-based deployments, and help improve the way we build and operate distributed systems.

If you’re curious, hands‑on, and excited to learn while making an impact in a fast‑paced trading environment, we’d love to hear from you.

The Mercury engineering team delivers a mission‑critical pricing, risk, and P&L platform that underpins Freddie Mac’s capital markets operations. As a Dev Tech Lead, you’ll shape the architecture and reliability of systems that power daily trading decisions, financial reporting, and enterprise risk management at scale.

You will work with a team to implement the Investments & Capital Markets Business Technology Office (I&CM BTO) - Business Engineering team. You will collaborate closely with the Financial Engineering, Data and Architecture, Enterprise technology teams and business partners.

• Work on complex problems and contribute practical, well‑reasoned technical solutions with guidance from senior leads.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into clear technical tasks and incremental delivery plans.
• Design and implement application features and services that are reliable, maintainable, and easy for other engineers to extend.
• Follow and help reinforce established software development best practices (coding standards, testing, documentation, and operational readiness).
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by improving build, test, and deployment automation to enable more frequent and reliable releases.
• Track and help improve engineering metrics (e.g., build health, test coverage, incident trends, performance) to support operational efficiency.
• Stay current with relevant engineering tools and patterns, bringing forward ideas and proofs‑of‑concept where they add value.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, quality, resiliency, security, and performance across the platform.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing as a strong technical contributor.

• 8+ years of experience in software development and engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong understanding of fixed income markets, particularly mortgage and debt securities, is highly preferred.
• Proficiency in advanced Java and Python and its object‑oriented principles.
• Expertise with relational database schema design and maintenance.
• Experience in building distributed and scalable trading platforms is preferred.
• Experience in building event‑driven Position, Risk and P&L management system is preferred.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices, AWS or cloud concepts.
• Ability to understand and write code documentation that conveys your solution to others.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize application for security and responsiveness.
• Languages/Frameworks/Tools:
  Java EE, Spring, Distributed Caching.
• Modern Tools:
  Gradle or Maven, Jenkins, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git, Junit or Mockito.
• DBs:
  Relational databases like MS SQL, Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL.

• Strong hands‑on technology, design and implementation skills.
• Experience working in fast‑paced technical environments to promote agile principles and mindset across the organization.
• Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices and iterative development approaches with an emphasis on Agile.
• Good understanding of mortgage/securitized…