SF Technology - Software Engineering - Senior Associate

Fannie Mae

1d • $123,000 - $161,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a valued colleague within the Single Family Technology team, you will collaborate with the team in designing, producing, testing, or implementing moderately complex software, technology, or processes, as well as create and maintain IT architecture, large scale data stores, and cloud-based systems. The SF Technology - Software Engineering - Senior Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities: Independently determine the needs of the customer and create solution frameworks. Owning the design, development, and evolution of collateral and appraisal-related platforms at scale. Use a process-driven approach in designing and developing solutions. Implement new software technology and coordinate end-to-end tasks across the team. Leading architecture and design decisions, making explicit tradeoffs across cost, latency, reliability, and complexity.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in mortgage domain and relevant technical expertise
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability
• Mentoring engineers and raising the bar on technical and domain excellence across the team.
• Translating complex mortgage domain requirements into robust, maintainable, and scalable systems.
• Driving data quality, compliance, and system integrity across collateral workflows.
• Backend and Data Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Storage Warehousing, and System and API Design Frameworks: Python (FastAPI or equivalent modern frameworks), Java (Spring Boot)
• Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reimagine how we work.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• End-to-end ownership of collateral data and valuation platforms in the U.S. secondary mortgage market, including production accountability, regulatory alignment, and operational SLAs.
• Deep, practitioner-level expertise in residential appraisal ecosystems (URAR, UAD, UCDP), including appraisal review, reconciliation, and systemic valuation risk detection.
• Expert software engineering across Python, Java, and PL/SQL, with deep knowledge of runtime internals, performance optimization, concurrency, and large-scale production debugging.
• Modern application development spanning TypeScript, React/Angular, and complex backend integrations, with strong focus on performance, reliability, and developer ergonomics.
• Architectural in distributed systems and APIs (REST and event‑driven), including idempotency, retries, rate limiting, failure isolation, schema evolution, and versioning.
• Advanced data platform expertise covering OLTP vs. OLAP design, dimensional modeling, Lakehouse architectures, batch and streaming systems (Spark, Kafka/Kinesis/Flink), and storage formats (Parquet, Iceberg).
• Cloud-native systems design on AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, Glue, Kinesis), with strong IaC (Docker, Terraform), observability (metrics, tracing, logging), security (IAM, VPC), and cost-performance discipline.

Responsibilities

• Independently determine the needs of the customer and create solution frameworks.
• Owning the design, development, and evolution of collateral and appraisal-related platforms at scale.
• Use a process-driven approach in designing and developing solutions.
• Implement new software technology and coordinate end-to-end tasks across the team.
• Leading architecture and design decisions, making explicit tradeoffs across cost, latency, reliability, and complexity.

Benefits

• Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being.
• Fannie Mae incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees