Senior Software Engineer; Hybrid - in Office

Position Overview

Do you love coding and embrace change and innovation and push the boundaries of what is possible while helping people grow in their career path? We are searching for a highly innovative Senior Developer to join our team. Interested in learning more? Read on!

As part of the Single Family Securitization organization, our vision is to create a scalable, innovative platform to support Freddie Mac Single Family Securitization Operations. Our team is responsible for providing solutions for all business areas at Freddie Mac – i.e. Single Family, Multi‑Family and Capital Markets – to improve operational efficiencies and provide better business value and faster time to market.

• Develop software solutions by studying organizational needs, conferring with users, studying system flows and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle.
• Follow established methodology and controls guidelines while maintaining agility and quality throughout the development process.
• Document technical design, interface specifications and unit testing.
• Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations or solutions.
• Demonstrate ownership of problems, issues, or requests from start to finish and facilitate appropriate handoffs.
• Ensure that best practices for development activities (e.g. code reviews, unit testing) are followed throughout the project life‑cycle.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies and degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5 – 7 years of experience engineering software solutions for business and operational capabilities.
• 5+ years of experience developing applications using Java/J2EE technologies, preferably in a Unix environment.
• Advanced understanding of typical multi‑tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers and load balancers.
• Hands‑on experience with multiple technologies such as Java/J2EE, middleware (Web Logic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) in a Unix environment and scripting languages such as Unix Shell.
• Build automation and CI/CD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.).
• Relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL).
• Information and application security knowledge, including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, and access credentials.
• Good communication skills; responsible for interfacing and influencing with business lines as well as other IT teams.
• Experience with Groovy.
• Modern tools:
  Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git.
• Cloud: AWS; other technologies: EKS, Docker, Open Shift.

• Embrace change and innovation.
• Encourage continuous exploration and take on challenges with calculated risk.
• Passion for driving value to customers and excitement for modern delivery (CI/CD) process.
• Ability to work quickly on delivery and apply a risk‑based approach to prioritize work.
• Ability to quickly comprehend new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
• Good interpersonal, relationship‑building and team‑working skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.
• Motivation to learn new technologies and identify process improvements.
• Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high‑quality technical solutions.

Time-type:
Full time

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Freddie 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities 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.

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.