About the position
At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it's at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose. We are searching for a highly innovative Senior Developer to join our team. At Freddie Mac, we are in the process of digital transformation and modernization, and we want you to be a part of it! You will get to show off your skills as a full stack software engineer, and will influence outcomes, guide transformation, and put your stamp on how the team and organization evolves. We need you to use your experience and success in coaching and transforming technical teams to shift to a modern execution model. The journey is wide open with possibilities!
Responsibilities
- Developing software solutions by studying organizational needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
- Follow established methodology and controls guidelines.
- Maintain agility and quality throughout development process.
- Documenting Technical Design, Interface Specifications and Unit Testing.
- Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations or solutions.
- Demonstrating ownership of problems, issues, or requests from start to finish and facilitating appropriate handoffs.
- Ensuring that 'Best Practices' for development activities (e.g. code reviews, unit testing, etc.) are followed through the project life cycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience; advanced studies and degree preferred.
- Typically has 5-7 years related experience.
- A minimum of 5-7 years of experience engineering awesome solutions.
- 5+ years of experience in developing applications using Java/J2EE technologies, preferably in Unix environment.
- Hands-on experience on multiple technologies such as: Java/J2EE & middleware (WebLogic, Apache, Spring Boot, etc.) technologies in UNIX environment and Scripting languages such as UNIX Shell.
- Build automation / CICD pipeline integration tools (Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Artifactory, etc.).
- Relational databases (Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
- Information and application security including LDAP, certificates, public key encryption, SSH, access credentials, etc.
- Languages: Java, Angular, Unix, Shell scripting, node.js, Python, C, C++.
- Modern Tools: Jenkins, Cucumber, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git.
- Cloud: AWS.
- Other: EKS, Docker, OpenShift.
- Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, & load balancers.
- Good communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to work quickly on delivery and able to apply risk-based approach to prioritize work.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies opportunities.
- Good interpersonal, relationship building and team working skills.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with various teams, both business and technical, to achieve goals.
- Motivated to learn new technologies and identify process improvements and efficiencies.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs.
- Annual incentive program.
