Tech Lead, Agile Developer

At Freddie Mac our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us and its 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.

Position Overview:

Freddie Mac is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical execution and engineering excellence for one or more agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who partner s closely with Development Leads Product Architecture Platform/DevOps and Security.

You will help teams deliver modern secure cloud-based solutions by setting clear technical direction breaking down complex problems and ensuring software is built to be resilient observable and maintainable in production.

Our Impact:

• Own technical direction for a feature area/service set aligning implementation to product goals and architectural standards

• Lead design and architecture discussions for cloud-native services integrations and distributed systems; document decisions and trade-offs

• Drive technical alignment across developers QA product owners and platform partners within an agile team environment

• Mentor engineers through execution (pairing code reviews design feedback) to improve consistency maintainability and delivery quality

• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues and production defects; lead root-cause analysis and remediation follow-through

• Translate requirements into technical plans (stories tasks acceptance criteria and implementation approach) and help the team deliver iteratively

• Break down ambiguous problems into actionable work identify dependencies and proactively manage technical risks

• Promote predictable delivery by improving estimation inputs reducing rework and ensuring readiness for sprint execution

Your Impact:

• Champion code quality and standards including secure coding practices testing discipline and performance considerations

• Establish and reinforce testing strategies (unit integration end-to-end) and ensure automation is built into the SDLC

• Improve reliability and operability by ensuring services include appropriate monitoring logging alerting and runbooks

• Continuously improve development practices through retrospectives technical debt management and refactoring plans

• Partner with Platform/DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines deployment automation infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling

• Contribute to cloud architecture on AWS (or similar) ensuring solutions are secure scalable and cost-aware

• Support production readiness including release planning change management inputs and post-deployment validation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering IT related field or equivalent work experience

• 8 years of software engineering experience delivering production-grade applications and services

• Demonstrated experience acting as a technical lead within agile teams (leading design guiding implementation and mentoring peers)

• Strong knowledge of modern architectures: microservices event-driven systems REST/GraphQL APIs distributed systems fundamentals

• Cloud experience particularly AWS (e.g. ECS/EKS Lambda EC2 RDS DynamoDB S3 IAM CloudWatch; CloudFormation/CDK/Terraform)

• Strong SDLC skills: CI/CD automated testing code reviews branching strategies and release practices

• Working knowledge of observability (metrics logs traces) and production support practices (incident triage RCA)

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)

• Experience modernizing legacy systems and/or supporting cloud migrations

• Familiarity with security and compliance expectations in regulated environments (e.g. data protection access controls auditability)

• Experience with multiple languages/frameworks and a best tool for the job mindset

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

We consider all applicants for all positions without regard to gender race color religion national origin age marital status veteran status sexual orientation gender identity/expression physical and mental disability pregnancy ethnicity genetic information or any other protected categories under applicable federal state or local laws. We will ensure that individuals 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.

A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Macs business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy applying a vigilance-first approach to work supporting regulatory mandates and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

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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 $154000 - $230000 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.

Required Experience:

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