Full Stack Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

2d•$138,000 - $206,000

About The Position

Freddie Mac is seeking a hands-on Full Stack Tech Lead Engineer to lead the design and delivery of modern enterprise applications, with a strong emphasis on UI/UX, front-end architecture, accessibility, and user-centered engineering. The role combines full stack engineering with technical leadership: establishing reusable front-end patterns, translating complex business workflows into clear user experiences, defining service and API integration approaches, and guiding engineers through architecture, development, testing, deployment, and production support. The position is within the Identity and Access Management team in the Enterprise Business Technology Operation organization. The team provides software development, enhancements, and production support for enterprise groups. This role will support IAM platform stability, operational efficiency, incident response, service delivery improvements, process optimization, automation, and proactive risk management. The engineer will lead front-end and full stack architecture, contribute hands-on, partner with product owners and stakeholders, create production-quality interfaces, design and integrate APIs and services, and guide technical reviews, testing, mentoring, and technical-debt reduction. Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package and an annual incentive program. The position is full time and exempt, with an annualized market-based salary range of $138,000 to $206,000.

Requirements

Approximately 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including significant full stack application development.
At least 3 years of experience providing technical leadership for application teams or major engineering initiatives.
Deep hands-on experience with a modern front-end framework, preferably React and TypeScript.
Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, browser architecture, responsive design, and performance optimization.
Experience creating or extending reusable component libraries and enterprise design systems.
Demonstrated understanding of UX principles, interaction design, information architecture, usability, and accessible design.
Strong experience designing, documenting, securing, and consuming RESTful APIs.
Back-end development experience with Java and Spring Boot, Node.js, or comparable enterprise frameworks.
Experience with relational databases, Git-based development, automated testing, and CI/CD.
Strong understanding of secure coding, authentication, authorization, session management, API security, and application logging.
Ability to lead technical design discussions, communicate trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
College degree or equivalent experience.
Hands-on technical credibility across UI, services, APIs, data, testing, security, and production support.
Ability to simplify complex user and business workflows without compromising control, security, or maintainability.
Strong collaboration with product, architecture, information security, infrastructure, and engineering partners.
Clear communication of technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.
A player-coach mindset combining architecture ownership, coding, mentoring, and delivery accountability.

Nice To Haves

Advanced studies or degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead front-end and full stack architecture for modern enterprise web applications.
Provide hands-on technical direction to engineers while personally contributing to development.
Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, and engineers to translate requirements into user journeys and scalable solutions.
Establish and govern reusable design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns, and front-end engineering standards.
Create prototypes and translate them into production-quality interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
Champion responsive design, usability, accessibility, and performance.
Design and integrate REST APIs, services, databases, and enterprise integrations across the application stack.
Define API contracts, data structures, error-handling patterns, authentication and authorization approaches, and observability requirements.
Lead architecture, design, and code reviews; technical problem solving; and root-cause analysis.
Promote automated unit, integration, API, UI, accessibility, and end-to-end testing within CI/CD pipelines.
Mentor engineers, strengthen front-end and full stack capabilities, and establish reusable reference patterns.
Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing delivery commitments, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability.
Support IAM platform stability, operational efficiency, incident response, process optimization, automation, proactive risk management, and service delivery improvement.