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. Our team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on our internal data platform hosted on AWS. The ideal candidate should have experience in system development and operation, along with a solid background in software engineering and familiarity with AWS. Our team manages an internal data platform that is crucial for key business operations, including prepayment model development, trading analytics, and securitization. We work with other teams to understand their data needs so we can design systems to meet their business objectives. We ensure that our systems are robust, scalable, fault-tolerant and cost effective.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and support a custom-built AWS native data platform.
- Collaborate with other areas of the team to understand their infrastructure needs and enhance the system to support them.
- Design and develop new code, review existing code changes, and implement automated tests.
- Actively seek opportunities to continuously improve the technical quality and architecture to improve the product's business value.
- Improve the product's test automation and deployment practices to enable the team to deliver features more efficiently.
- Operate the product in production including release management and production support.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience developing production software.
- Strong Python skills with at least two years of experience writing production code.
- At least two years of experience with Linux administration and scripting.
- At least one year of experience with Amazon Web Services as a developer and administrator, especially writing CloudFormation templates.
- Experience working with AWS Services: EC2, EMR, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, Networking services (VPCs, Security Groups, etc.), STS, SSM.
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance and acceptance tests.
- Solid understanding of software design principles.
Nice-to-haves
- Passionate about hands-on software development.
- A desire to work on all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, development, testing and operations.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Desire to continuously improve the team's technical practices.
- Ability to quickly learn, apply and deploy new technologies to solve emerging problems.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs.
- Annual incentive program eligibility.
