Software Engineering, Technical Lead

Freddie Mac•Austin, TX

About The Position

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose. Position Overview: Are you ready to help build and evolve the next generation of trading technology? We’re looking for a Dev Tech Lead to support the development and enhancement of applications that drive position, risk, and P&L for our trading desks. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers and product partners to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions, contribute to modern cloud-based deployments, and help improve the way we build and operate distributed systems. If you’re curious, hands-on, and excited to learn while making an impact in a fast-paced trading environment, we’d love to hear from you. Our Impact: The Mercury engineering team delivers a mission‑critical pricing, risk, and P&L platform that underpins Freddie Mac’s capital markets operations. As a Dev Tech Lead, you’ll shape the architecture and reliability of systems that power daily trading decisions, financial reporting, and enterprise risk management at scale. Your Impact: You will work with a team to implement the Investments & Capital Markets Business Technology Office (I&CM BTO) - Business Engineering team. You will collaborate closely with the Financial Engineering, Data and Architecture, Enterprise technology teams and business partners. Work on complex problems and contribute practical, well-reasoned technical solutions with guidance from senior leads. Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into clear technical tasks and incremental delivery plans. Design and implement application features and services that are reliable, maintainable, and easy for other engineers to extend. Follow and help reinforce established software development best practices (coding standards, testing, documentation, and operational readiness). Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by improving build, test, and deployment automation to enable more frequent and reliable releases. Track and help improve engineering metrics (e.g., build health, test coverage, incident trends, performance) to support operational efficiency. Stay current with relevant engineering tools and patterns, bringing forward ideas and proofs-of-concept where they add value. Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, quality, resiliency, security, and performance across the platform. Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing as a strong technical contributor.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software development and engineering
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
Strong understanding of fixed income markets, particularly mortgage and debt securities, is highly preferred
Proficiency in advanced Java and Python and it's object-oriented principles
Expertise with relational database schema design and maintenance
Experience in building distributed and scalable trading platforms is preferred
Experience in building event driven Position, Risk and P&L management system is preferred
Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies
Familiarity with containerization, microservices, AWS or cloud concepts
Ability to understand and write code documentation that conveys your solution to others
Ability to troubleshoot and optimize application for security and responsiveness
Java EE, Spring, Distributed Caching
Modern Tools: Gradle or Maven, Jenkins, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Bitbucket), Git, Junit or Mockito
DBs: Relational databases like MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Strong hands-on technology, design and implementation skills
Experience working in fast-paced technical environments to promote agile principles and mindset across the organization.
Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices and iterative development approaches with an emphasis on Agile.
Good understanding of mortgage/securitized products to establish credibility with trading desks
Develop long-term vision and strategy, while also executing and delivering measurable results
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver complex strategic initiatives
Strong attention to detail, process management, and task ownership
Operate in a dynamic, rapidly changing business environment and manage multiple tasks
Identify and escalate risks and impediments effectively

Responsibilities

Work with a team to implement the Investments & Capital Markets Business Technology Office (I&CM BTO) - Business Engineering team.
Collaborate closely with the Financial Engineering, Data and Architecture, Enterprise technology teams and business partners.
Work on complex problems and contribute practical, well-reasoned technical solutions with guidance from senior leads.
Partner with product and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into clear technical tasks and incremental delivery plans.
Design and implement application features and services that are reliable, maintainable, and easy for other engineers to extend.
Follow and help reinforce established software development best practices (coding standards, testing, documentation, and operational readiness).
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines by improving build, test, and deployment automation to enable more frequent and reliable releases.
Track and help improve engineering metrics (e.g., build health, test coverage, incident trends, performance) to support operational efficiency.
Stay current with relevant engineering tools and patterns, bringing forward ideas and proofs-of-concept where they add value.
Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, quality, resiliency, security, and performance across the platform.
Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing as a strong technical contributor.