Software Engineer, Associate

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Position Overview:

Are you interested in using your software engineering skills to build a system to enable massively parallel computations in a cloud environment We are seeking an Entry Level (Associate) Software Engineer to work on our cloud-based distributed computing system. We are looking for a creative and talented individual who loves to develop and operate systems. Apply now and learn why there is #MoreAtFreddieMac!

Our Impact:

• Our team is responsible for the distributing computing platform that is used by all the firms quantitative model and analytic systems. These systems use Monte-Carlo simulations to value financial instruments such as loans mortgage-backed security and collateralized mortgage obligations.

• We work with other teams within our department to help them effectively leverage parallel compute in the cloud.

• We ensure that our systems are robust scalable fault-tolerant and cost effective.

Your Impact:

• Design develop and support a custom-built AWS native solution for distributed computing. The current system is written in Python and uses EC2 (Spot Fleet) S3 SQS Lambda DynamoDB and API Gateway

• 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 products business value

• Improve the products test automation and deployment practices to enable the team to deliver features more efficiently

• Provide production support for the product

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred

• Up two years of professional exposure to Python

• Preferred: Exposure to AWS

Keys to Success in this Role:

• 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 teams technical practices

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

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