Software Developer, Senior

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Position Overview:

Build missioncritical platforms at the intersection of finance scale and modern engineering.

The Business Engineering (BE) group within the Investments & Capital Markets Business Technology Office (I&CM BTO) is at the forefront of building technology that powers trading and capital markets operations. We partner directly with business leaders traders and operations teams to deliver platforms that streamline complex workflows reduce risk and enable the firm to move faster with confidence.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in designing and delivering enhancements to our nextgeneration payments platform. This is a handson senior role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex problems influencing architecture and delivering highquality systems under realworld constraints.

Our Impact:

• Work on highimpact systems that directly support many of Freddie Macs key operations.

• Influence architecture and technical direction on a missioncritical platform.

• Collaborate with experienced engineers and business leaders who value strong engineering practices.

• Operate in an environment that values innovation accountability and technical excellence.

Your Impact:

• Design and build core platform capabilities for a bestinclass payments system supporting enterprise-wide mission-critical business functions.

• Collaborate closely with business partners across Front Office Back Office and Payments to translate complex requirements into elegant technical solutions.

• Lead handson development efforts from prototyping through production with a strong focus on quality performance security and resilience.

• Drive architectural and design decisions anticipating performance bottlenecks and optimizing systems as they scale.

• Deliver in a fastpaced agile environment balancing speed with stability and longterm maintainability.

• Support production systems troubleshoot issues and respond to timesensitive business needs with confidence and ownership.

Qualifications:

• 57 years of professional experience designing developing and testing enterprisegrade software in an Agile environment.

• Strong expertise in Java / J2EE and building scalable backend services.

• Proven experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs using Spring Boot.

• Solid experience with relational databases such as Sybase SQL Server MySQL or DB2.

• Frontend development experience with Angular (v2) and modern UI patterns.

• Handson experience with modern build CI/CD and containerization tools including Git Gradle Docker Jenkins and Eclipse.

• Strong testing mindset with experience writing JUnit tests using Mockito and leveraging test automation frameworks such as FitNesse.

• Working knowledge and practical experience with GenAIenabled development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot LLMs RAG agentic workflows).

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Youre a problem solver first comfortable navigating ambiguity and breaking down complex business challenges into technical solutions.

• You combine strong engineering fundamentals with practical business acumen.

• You communicate clearly with both technical and nontechnical partners and influence outcomes through collaboration.

• Youre adaptable curious and energized by continuous change and tight delivery timelines.

• You take ownershipof code quality system stability and the success of the broader team.

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

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