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Software Engineer, Technical Lead

Freddie Mac -
McLean, VA

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Job Details

Full-time
$154,000 - $230,000 a year

Qualifications

Software engineering
Defect resolution root cause analysis
Continuous Delivery (CD) implementation
Engineering development testing
Team leadership
IT system monitoring
Application deployment
Microservices
Event-driven architecture
Incident management operations support
Implementation (software development lifecycle)
Mentoring
Leading team collaboration initiatives
Developing automated testing protocols
Agile software development
Application Maintenance
Application support
Distributed computing
DevOps automation
Cloud monitoring
Design (software development lifecycle)
Failure analysis
System performance monitoring

Full Job Description

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.

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 partners 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:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, related field or equivalent work experience; advanced studies/degree preferred
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 Mac’s 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.

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 $154,000 - $230,000 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.

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