Software Engineer, Professional, Financial Engineering (Hybrid - 3 Days in Office)

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.

Position Overview

Are you interested in using your software engineering skills to build numerical systems that enable machine learning and analytics on large data sets? Financial Engineering is seeking a Software Engineer to develop production systems that involve data science and machine learning. We are looking for a creative and talented individual who loves to code.

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Our impact

• We partner with the Multi-family BTO and Multi-family modeler team

• We build systems to make their models, data, and analytics available for business use

• We ensure that our systems are robust, scalable and fault-tolerant

Your impact

• Implement new models and data transformations using Python based technologies such as PySpark and Pandas

• Implement and expose model as web service API using Flask and deploy web services to AWS EKS

• Optimize Python code to reduce runtime and memory usage

• Write high quality automated tests to validate your code

• Peer review other team member’s code and help them with design and implementation challenges

• Utilize theoretical knowledge of computational finance to design, develop and support applications and/or systems within the financial modeling and research area.

• Design and develop new code and review existing code changes to ensure standard technology development practices are met.

• Assist in the operational execution of software solutions to assist with the monitoring and control of market and credit risks.

• Assist with application development and with modification and/or maintenance of applications. Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of development tools and languages.

• May assist other areas of financial research and engineering when defining requirements for systems applications.

Qualifications

• At least 2 - 4 years of experience developing in Python

• Technically and quantitatively oriented with a Master's degree in Computer Science, , Computational Finance, or a directly related quantitative field

• Experience building production systems for business-critical processes

• Experience with building and integrating tools, including knowledge of Gradle, Jenkins, Git and Docker.

• Experience developing with large microservice based architectures, container orchestration frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience with relational databases including MSSQL, MySQL

• Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance and acceptance tests

• Solid understanding of software design principles

Keys to Success in this Role

• Passionate about hands-on software development

• Strong collaboration and communication skills (both written and verbal), including interacting with data scientists on technical topics

• Desire to continuously improve the technical quality and architecture of our systems to respond to business needs

• Ability to quickly learn, apply and deploy new technologies to solve emerging problems

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.

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