Software Engineer Senior (Java/Angular/Springboot)

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.

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:

We have a great opportunity for an Software Engineer, Senior to join the Single-Family Shared Services Portal Tech team and work in a fast-paced Modern delivery team. Are you excited to work in a fast-paced Agile environment and enjoy working in a multitude of technologies? If so, join our team of open-minded, highly motivated individuals who are currently working in an interesting mix of cloud-based technologies within Single-Family Business Technology Office (BTO) group.

Our Impact:

Freddie Mac is an industry leader building the future of technology for the housing/finance industry. Our Modern Delivery team working on Cloud Native applications helps enable and transform Freddie Mac's business. We provide systems and technology that benefit the enterprise, customers, and our business partners.

Your Impact:

You will be working with the product teams and the product owners through the modernization, driving adoption of modern software engineering and delivery practices (Real Agile, TDD, ATDD, Stateless Design, Microservices, Containerization, etc.), while providing continuous business value to customers Below are the key functions for this role.

Technical Leadership

Partner with Dev leads to define technical solutions to complex business use cases that align with target state architecture and conform with corporate standard processes. Should be able to apply strong business knowledge and understanding of the business objective when selecting the optimal technical approach. Should be cross-functional team member; codes, writes, performs automated tests. Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior and mid-level developers.

Development & Execution

Work within a product team demonstrating the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Analyze the user stories and come up with design options that align with the technical roadmap and build proof of concepts as needed. Design and develop Micro Services based solutions using Java & Spring Boot frameworks; Mongo DB; Selenium and Cucumber for test automation. Assess opportunities for application & process improvements, optimizations & performance tuning

Produce high quality design artifacts that cover all aspects of sound architecture. Develop within a Cloud-based architecture - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Goldfield.

DevOps

Adopt the CI/CD process within the team and continue to enable improve it

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree with Major in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent. Typically has 5 - 7 years related experience.

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in software development; 5+ years of relevant experience and specialized training or certification in the following technologies: J2EE, Java, Web Development and SQL; Apigee API Management a plus.

• Experience in Micro-services and Docker Containers Platforms using OpenShift and Kubernetes.

• Extenvise knowledge on Spring-Boot, Spring Integration Java Technologies.

• Experience/Knowledge on MongoDB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL Databases.

• High level of exposure to testing frameworks like Junit & Cucumber & Front-end UI development frameworks like Angular or REACT JS is a MUST.

• Experience in code delivery pipelines and adept in building Build and Deployment tools using Maven, Gradle, ANSIBLE and Jenkins

• Experience with REST based Web services

• Strong SQL skills are highly preferred.

• Experience in multi-threading is nice to have.

• Modern Tools: Jenkins, Cucumber/Specflow, Atlassian Suite (Bamboo, Jira, Bitbucket), Git

• Cloud: AWS

• Knowledge or experience in Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

• Experience working in Scaled Agile, Modern Delivery experience is a plus.

• Provide production support – able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue.

• Significant contributor to the team, whose code follows latest coding practices and Freddie Mac standards.

• Author, writing the unit, integration tests an