At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Job Description
We are the Single-Family Underwriting IT team working on projects for critical Freddie Mac core applications.
If you are a confident, poised, self-motivated and creative software engineer with a belief that good communication is vital to inspiring change, we are your next destination employer!
You will be engaging with a project teams that are comprised of business, analysis, testing, and infrastructure partners, all working together to enhance the capabilities of these systems.
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Our Impact
We 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. We also, provide technical guidance to the project team, lead design and code reviews, and engage with business to discuss issues and document or explain technical solutions in a simplified meaningful way.
We also 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.
Your Impact
- 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 if necessary, develop, unit test and deploy the application.
- Build Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE frameworks, Docker and Open Shift. Newly created Micro Services will replace legacy Java/JEE monolithic application.
- 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.
- Contribute in creating delivery pipelines for newly created Micro Services on Docker and Openshift platforms.
- Support building Micro Services practice within development group with objective to create standards, tools and training other developers (GUI and backend systems).
- 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 5-7+ years of experience in software development; 2 or more years of experience working in Agile, Lean/Kanban, or Scaled Agile organization.
- Demonstrated ability to use Lean/Agile delivery practices to improve teams, quality, and reliability
- Experience applying Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and Static Code analysis to improve quality and reliability of delivery
- 5+ years of experience in Design and 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.
- 5 years of experience in designing in enterprise grade applications using Object Oriented Analysis and Design. Produce high quality design artifacts that cover all aspects of sound architecture. Ability to review and comment on Jr Developers design.
- 2+ 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, and JQuery
- Integration experience using Web Services /REST and EJB preferably on Oracle/Weblogic or JBoss.
- 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, XML, JAXB, and XML persistence using XQuery.
- 1+ year of hands-on test automation experience
- Preferred experience but not necessary - DevOps and MicroServices are plus.
- Hands-on experience with Build and Deployment tools and languages - MAVEN, Gradle, ANT, Shell script, Jenkins
- Mortgage and/or financial services industry experience a plus.
- Prior Freddie Mac experience a plus
Key to success in this role
- Works under minimal supervision
- Ability to provide technical guidance to the team
- Strong written and oral communications skills
- 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 an approach 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.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
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.
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.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
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.