Springboot)

Freddie Mac•McLean, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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. 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.

Requirements

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
Experience in Micro-services and Docker Containers Platforms using OpenShift and Kubernetes.
Extensive 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.
Knowledge or experience in Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.
Strong consultation and communication skills.
Proactive in identifying existing issues and providing an alternate solution.
Curiosity to learn about new trends related to tools and technology.
Seek and Embrace Change – Continuously improve work processes rather than accepting status quo.
Flexible to work with different teams across organization.
Flexible to support weekend works.
Takes accountability, sets expectations, and delivers high quality technical solutions within agreed upon level of effort.

Nice To Haves

Apigee API Management a plus.
Experience in multi-threading is nice to have.
Experience working in Scaled Agile, Modern Delivery experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

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.
Apply strong business knowledge and understanding of the business objective when selecting the optimal technical approach.
Be a cross-functional team member; codes, writes, performs automated tests.
Train, mentor and provide thought leadership to junior and mid-level developers.
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.
Adopt the CI/CD process within the team and continue to enable improve it.
Provide production support – able to collaborate with Business and Technical teams to debug the issue.
Be a significant contributor to the team, whose code follows latest coding practices and Freddie Mac standards.
Author, writing the unit, integration tests and functional automation.
Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
Take the lead on ensuring that the code is of high quality; constantly challenges ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
Demonstrate innovation when developing and designing the business logic.
Demonstrate a collaboration approach while working with others to build the business logic and backend systems.